Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, musician, and multimedia artist. Born and raised in the state of New York to a Danish father and American mother, he also lived in Argentina during his childhood. He is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

KNOWN FOR

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2019
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Daily Show
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2024
Morgenmagazin
2020
Real Time with Bill Maher
2016
Leute heute
2020
Miami Vice
1987
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2019
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Screen Two
1994

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
105
Directing
2
Writing
2
Producing
6
Sound
3
Crew
1
2026
I Love Boosters
as Documentary Narrator - Heine Schlumpf (voice)
2024
The Dead Don't Hurt
as Holger Olsen
2024
Eureka
as Murphy
2024
Beau geste
as Self
2024
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
as Self - Guest
2024
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
2022
Thirteen Lives
as Rick Stanton
2022
Crimes of the Future
as Saul Tenser
2022
Sucré salé
as Self
2020
Falling
as John (50 Yrs)
2020
Cosmos
as Nikolai Vavilov (voice)
2020
Leute heute
as Self
2020
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
Morgenmagazin
as Self
2019
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2018
Green Book
as Tony Lip
2016
Captain Fantastic
as Ben Cash
2016
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2016
The Revolution Televised
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Far from Men
as Daru
2015
Angels & Atom Bombs
as Self
2014
The Two Faces of January
as Chester MacFarland
2014
Jauja
as Gunnar Dinesen
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2012
On the Road
as Old Bull Lee / William S. Burroughs
2012
Everybody Has a Plan
as Agustín / Pedro
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
2011
A Dangerous Method
as Sigmund Freud
2010
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
as Self
2009
The Road
as Father
2009
The People Speak
as Self
2009
Reclaiming the Blade
as Self
2009
Lukong's Destiny
as Self
2008
Good
as Halder
2008
Appaloosa
as Everett Hitch
2008
The Early Show
as Self
2008
The Oscars
as Self
2007
Eastern Promises
as Nikolai Luzhin
2007
Slacker Uprising
as Self
2006
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
as Diego Alatriste
2006
Too Commercial for Cannes
as Self
2006
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
as Self
2006
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2005
A History of Violence
as Tom Stall / Joey Cusack
2005
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
as Self
2005
The Daily Show
as Self
2004
Hidalgo
as Frank Hopkins
2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Aragorn
2003
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
as Self
2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth
as Self
2003
The Saw Is Family: Making 'Leatherface'
as Self (archive)
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Aragorn
2002
J.R.R. Tolkien - Creator of Middle-earth
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..
as Self
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Aragorn
2001
Quest for the Ring
as Self
2001
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
as Self
2000
28 Days
as Eddie Boone
1999
A Walk on the Moon
as Walker Jerome
1999
Psycho Path
as Self - Actor / Sam Loomis
1998
A Perfect Murder
as David Shaw
1998
Psycho
as Samuel 'Sam' Loomis
1997
G.I. Jane
as Master Chief John James Urgayle
1997
Albino Alligator
as Guy Foucard
1997
Vanishing Point
as Jimmy Kowalski
1997
My Brother's Gun
as Juanito
1996
Daylight
as Roy Nord
1996
The Portrait of a Lady
as Caspar Goodwood
1995
Crimson Tide
as Lt. Peter 'Weps' Ince
1995
The Passion of Darkly Noon
as Clay
1995
The Prophecy
as Lucifer
1995
Gimlet
as Gimlet
1995
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
as Self
1994
Gospel According to Harry
as Wes
1994
Floundering
as Homeless Man
1994
The Crew
as Phillip
1994
Screen Two
as Cameron Dove
1993
Boiling Point
as Ronnie
1993
Carlito's Way
as Lalin
1993
The Young Americans
as Carl Frazer
1993
American Yakuza
as Nick Davis / David Brandt
1992
Ruby Cairo
as Johnny Faro
1991
The Indian Runner
as Frank Roberts
1990
The Reflecting Skin
as Cameron Dove
1990
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
as Tex
1990
Young Guns II
as John W. Poe
1989
Tripwire
as Hans
1988
Fresh Horses
as Green
1988
Let's Get Lost
as Self
1987
Prison
as Burke / Forsythe Electrocution
1987
Salvation!
as Jerome Stample
1987
Miami Vice
as Detective Eddie Trumbull
1985
Witness
as Moses Hochleitner
1985
High School Narc
as Tim
Two Wolves
Porto Rico
Embers
as Konrad
Dark Biosphere
as Narrator