Happy Birthday: Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen

Born: October 20, 1958 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

On the role of an actor in film: “It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there’s some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn’t. Maybe there wasn’t supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.”

Carlito’s Way 1993 dir. Brian DePalma Starring Al Pacino Sean Penn

The Passion of Darkly Noon 1995 dir. by Philip Ridley starring Judd Brenden Fraser

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 dir. Jackson Starring Sean Astin The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 dir. Peter Jackson A History of Violence 2005 dir. David Cronenberg Starring Viggo Mortenson Maria Bello Eastern Promisese Directed…