Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr.  (; lahir 20 Oktober 1958) adalah seorang aktor dan pembuat film berkebangsaan Amerika, Kanada, dan Denmark. Dia telah menerima nominasi untuk tiga Academy Awards, tiga BAFTA Awards, dan empat Golden Globe Awards.

Mortensen memulai debut filmnya dengan peran dalam film thriller karya Peter Weir tahun 1985 Witness. Sepanjang akhir tahun 1990-an, Mortensen memainkan peran pendukung dalam berbagai film, termasuk film romantis bertema sejarah The Portrait of a Lady (1996), drama aksi G.I. Jane (1997), drama kriminal A Perfect Murder (1998), dan komedi 28 Days (2000).

Mortensen meraih perhatian internasional berkat peran terobosannya sebagai Aragorn dalam trilogi fantasi The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003). Dia kemudian membintangi beberapa film David Cronenberg termasuk A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), yang membuatnya dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik, A Dangerous Method (2011) dan Crimes of the Future (2022)." Flawed father role a test for Viggo Mortensen" . Toronto Star, Michael O'Sullivan, July 16, 2016. Ia mendapatkan nominasi Academy Award lebih lanjut untuk peran utamanya sebagai seorang ayah anarkis dalam film Captain Fantastic (2016) dan sebagaj Tony Lip di Green Book (2018). Mortensen melakukan debut penyutradaraannya dengan Falling (2020), di mana dia juga memerankannya.

Selain film, Mortensen telah menekuni berbagai bidang seni lainnya termasuk melukis, menulis puisi, bermusik, dan fotografi. Mortensen menggubah dan membawakan musik untuk film-film termasuk soundtrack The Lord of the Rings, dan telah berkolaborasi dengan gitaris Buckethead di beberapa album. Pada tahun 2002, Mortensen mendirikan Perceval Press untuk menerbitkan karya-karyanya dan karya-karya seniman serta penulis yang kurang dikenal.

 Bibiliografi 

 Ten Last Night (1993), his first collection of poetry;
 Recent Forgeries (1998), ISBN, 5th Edition, documents Viggo's first solo exhibition and includes a CD with music and spoken-word poetry. Introduction by Dennis Hopper;
 Errant Vine (2000), limited edition booklet of an exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery. Only about 300 were published at the time of the exhibition so it is a very rare book;
 Hole in the Sun (2002, ISBN), color and black and white photographs of a back yard swimming pool;
 SignLanguage (2002 ISBN), a catalog from an exhibition of his works, combining photographs, paintings, and poetry into a multimedia diary of his time in Selandia Baru while filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 Coincidence of Memory (2002, ISBN Third Edition, in this book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that cover his artistic output from 1978 to 2002;
 Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington (2003), ISBN, a book to accompany the joint exhibitions at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery during the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;
 45301 (2003), ISBN, Abstract images, fragments and phrases from poems create this photography book. Many of the photographs were shot during travels to Morocco, Cuba, and the northern plains of the United States;
 Un hueco en el sol (2003), a small booklet was published to accompany the exhibition "Un hueco en el sol" at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. In Spanish;
 Miyelo (2003), ISBN X), a series of panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance. It also tells about the events leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee;
 The Horse is Good (2004), ISBN, a photography book partly shot during his work on the film Hidalgo about horses as partners, teachers, and fellow travelers. Images from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, California, Iceland, Selandia Baru, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina.

 Diskografi 
Diskografi utama ialah Don't Tell Me What to Do, Intelligence Failure, One Less Thing to Worry About, One Man's Meat, Live at Beyond Baroque, The Other Parade, This That and The Other, Live at Beyond Baroque 2, Pandemoniumfromamerica, dan Please Tomorrow.

Referensi

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 Viggo Forums Viggo Mortensen Forum - Fan Forum network
 Viggo Forums 

 Mortensen's publishing company Perceval Press
 Brego.net, Extensive resource on Viggo's films, art, music and political activism, with photos and video clips.
  , Tiscali biography
 viggo-works.com, Probably the more often updated Viggo website. News, lots of links, pictures, forum.
 SotBK.net , fansite
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  The Eye and the Hand  The place to become familiar with Viggo Mortensen the artist. Discussions about Viggo Mortensen's artwork. Glosses and comments about his paintings and photographs, translation of his poems. Personal artwork' gallery.
 Obsession
 Viggo Fan Base, Well-established site encompassing all things Viggo. Active discussion forum with Fan Fics, and much more.

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