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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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  • Longer Road Ahead for Viggo Mortensen Film | Movie News | 10/16/2008

    Viggo Mortensen's new thriller, The Road, has a little more travelling to do before it make it to theaters.

    The Weinstein Co. film was originally slated for limited release November 14, and wider release Nov. 26. now, however, it may not arrive until December, or even next year.

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  • Oscar Surprises, Part 2: Blanchett, Mortensen, Hal Holbrook and More! | Movie News | 1/22/2008
    A surprising number of movies had to make do with single nominations in the major categoriesViggo Mortensen picked up a best-actor nom as an icy Russian Gangster in David Cronenbergs brutal thriller Eastern Promises ditto Johnny Depp for Tim Burtons gothic adaptation of Stephen Sondheims musical Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sentimental favorite Hal Holbrook 82 hell be 83 by the time the ceremony takes place took a best supporting actor nomination for Sean Penns Into the Wild based on Jon Krakauers nonfiction account of a troubled young mans 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 Penns direction and adapted screenplay as well as Emile Hirschs 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 15 read more be the first to leave a comment
  • 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
  • I am having trouble with the ... | Today's News: Our Take | 1/3/2007

    Question: I am having trouble with the possibility of Viggo Mortensen joining Crossing Jordan when he's so busy over the next year doing movies. Were you serious?


    Answer: That's what I heard. Personally, I'll be shocked if they get him.

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more Viggo Mortensen news (7 total news articles)

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Title Year Type
Appaloosa (Actor - Everett Hitch) 2008 Movie
Good (Actor - John Halder) 2008 Movie
The Road (Actor) 2008 Movie
Eastern Promises (Actor - Nickolai) 2007 Movie
A History Of Violence (Actor - Tom Stall) 2005 Movie

more Viggo Mortensen credits (58 total credits)

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Posted: 6/6/2008 Length: 1m 47s
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Network: CBS
Posted: 12/17/2007
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Colbert Nation: Stephen for...
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Network: Colbert Nation
Posted: 3/4/2009 Length: 1m 58s
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Movie Minutes: 'Eastern Promises'
A. O. Scott reviews "Eastern Promises," a...
Network: NY Times
Posted: 3/4/2009
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Shootout: Ed Harris at TIFF on...
Ed Harris talks about working with Viggo...
Network: AMC
Posted: 9/18/2008 Length: 2m 0s
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