Viggo Mortensen is a real-life Renaissance man whose abilities transcend his chiseled leading man looks.
Mortensen is a painter, a published poet, a talented photographer and an actor of vast range, with roles encompassing an Amish farmer ("Witness," 1985), a king of Middle-Earth ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, 2001-2003), an assassin of mobsters ("A History of Violence," 2005) and a tattooed undercover Russian officer whose naked violent bathhouse brawl is one of the most memorable scenes in modern film history ("Eastern Promises," 2007).
