Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated American theater and movie actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Biography Personal life Mortensen was born in New York City. His Danish father, Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. (a farm manager who worked in business), and American mother, Grace Gamble (née Atkinson), met in Norway.[LINK: http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/Viggo-Mortensen.html] Film Reference websitehttp://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=133016&ran=177221 His maternal grandfather was Canadian.[LINK: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/viggo.htm] Rootsweb Celebrities website His family moved to Venezuela, Argentina and Denmark, settling in Argentina,

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