Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen: Biography

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Birth Name: Viggo Peter Mortensen
Birth Place: New York, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 10/20/1958, Libra
Profession: Actor

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Viggo Mortensen: TV Guide News

Oscar Surprises, Part 2: Blanchett, Mortensen, Hal Holbrook and More! | Ask FlickChick | 1/22/2008
A surprising number of movies had to make do with single nominations in the major categories:Viggo Mortensen picked up a best-actor nom as an icy Russian Gangster in David Cronenberg's brutal thriller Eastern Promises, ditto Johnny Depp for Tim Burton's gothic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Sentimental favorite Hal Holbrook, 82 (he'll be 83 by the time the ceremony takes place), took a best supporting actor nomination for Sean Penn's Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's nonfiction account of a troubled young man's search for meaning that eventually takes him deep into the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. It was also ignored in all other major categories despite strong reviews for Penn's direction and adapted screenplay, as well as Emile Hirsch's performance in the lead role. Audiences failed to warm to the film. Much-loved veteran character actress Ruby Dee, 83, got the only nomination — for best-supporting actress... read more
Bale and Depp Are Enemies, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 1/15/2008
Christian Bale is in talks to play FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis to Johnny Depp's John Dillinger in Public Enemies, a Michael Mann-directed adaptation of Brian Burrough's Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. (Did Tracy Jordan come up with that title?).... Charlize Theron is Viggo Mortensen's wife in the big-screen version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.... Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter ('Til Death) have been cast as a magazine editor and Isla Fisher's best gal pal, respectively, in Confessions of a Shopaholic.... Orlando Jones is a gay man who micromanages the pregnancy of his and his partner's surrogate (Criminal Minds' A.J. Cook) in the indie dramedy Misconceptions. read more
Saving Grace, the Movie! And Other Film News | Today's News: Our Take | 9/19/2007
Tatum O'Neal will play the title character in Saving Grace, a period drama having not a thing to do with the TNT series but that instead is about a woman released from an asylum into the custody or her sister (Penelope Ann Miller) and brother-in-law (Michael Biehn). The 4400's Joel Gretsch plays Grace's ex-husband.... Also per the Reporter, Jennifer Garner is in talks to star opposite (a presumably bare-chested) Matthew McConaughey in the rom-com Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.... Ryan Reynolds and Kristen Stewart have joined the cast of the coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, playing an aspiring rock star and a tomboy amusement-park employee, respectively.... Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning thriller The Road (shop Amazon) is being brought to the big screen. Viggo Mortensen has been rumored for the lead role. Production starts in January. read more
Ask Ausiello | 1/3/2007
I am having trouble with the possibility of Viggo Mortensen joining Crossing Jordan when he's so busy over the next year read more
FlickChick | 2/23/2006
I wish I had submitted this last year but I never got around to it. So I?m asking now: Why read more

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Viggo Mortensen: TV Listings

Viggo Mortensen: Credits

Title	Year	Type
The Road (Actor)	2008	Movie
Eastern Promises (Actor - Nickolai)	2007	Movie
A History Of Violence (Actor - Tom Stall)	2005	Movie
Hidalgo (Actor - Frank Hopkins)	2004	Movie
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (Actor - Aragorn)	2003	Movie