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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 roles as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
film trilogy, and as Nikolai Luzhin in David Cronenberg's Eastern
Promises. In 2004, Mortensen starred as Frank Hopkins in Hidalgo,
the story of an ex-army courier who travels to Arabia to compete
with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest
prize. In 2005, Mortensen starred in David Cronenberg's A History
of Violence. He was nominated for a Satellite Award for
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for this role. In September
2007 the film Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg, was
released to critical acclaim for the film itself and for
Mortensen's performance as a Russian gangster on the rise in
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