Viggo Mortensen
Childhood Of Celebrities : Viggo Mortensen
Mortensen was born in New York. His Danish father, Viggo Peter Mortensen (a farm manager), and American mother, Grace Gamble Atkinson, met in Norway. His maternal grandfather was Canadian. When he was two years old he moved with his family to Argentina and lived there until age eleven, when his parents divorced and his mother moved back to New York, and Viggo moved with his father to Copenhagen, Denmark. Viggo and his father eventually went back to the United States, and Viggo finished High School at Watertown High School. After that, he moved back to Denmark, and became a truckdriver in Esbjerg, Denmark, before, again, eventually moving back to to the United States to pursue an acting career. He attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, earning a degree in Spanish, a subject in which he could get good grades without a lot of study, leaving him free to be in a lot of plays. At his commencement, he refused to wear an academic gown because they were made by sweatshop workers; however, after the Lord of the Rings trilogy, when he was granted an Honorary Doctorate by his alma mater, he did appear in the appropriate robes.
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