Viggo Peter Mortensen (born October 20, 1958) is an American-Danish actor, poet, musician, photographer, and painter.
His film roles include Aragorn in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, Frank T. Hopkins in "Hidalgo", Tom Stall in David Cronenberg's A "History of Violence", and his Academy and Golden Globe Award-nominated role as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises".
He is to star in the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road as "The Man".
"I’m just looking as always for something that’s stimulating and I hope to find a good story that’s a challenge, whether it’s big or small. Or that it finds me. I don’t have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don’t."