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Home • Viggo Mortensen • Articles & Interviews • The 50 Most Beautiful People

The 50 Most Beautiful People

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

It was only tabloid gossip, but relatives in Denmark rejoiced when they read that Viggo Mortensen was dating his A Perfect Murder costar Gwyneth Paltrow a few years back. “Maybe she’ll make you pay more attention to your own grooming,” they told him. Not a chance. The Manhattan-born actor, 43 (his father is Danish, his mother American), prefers painting—his canvases fetch up to $5,000—to primping.

On the New Zealand set of The Lord of the Rings, in which he played the princely Aragorn, the 5’11” Mortensen wasn’t even upset when he chipped a front tooth during a sword-fighting scene, blithely suggesting Super Glue as a fix. His dressing room mirror was covered with so many photos of son Henry, 14 (whose mom is Mortensen’s ex-wife punk singer Exene Cervenka), “there wasn’t one little speck left for him to look,” costar Liv Tyler told Details. Let others do the staring. “He has mesmerizing green-blue eyes,” says director Tony Goldwyn, who cast him in 1999’s A Walk on the Moon. “That cliché about the eyes being the windows to the soul? With Viggo, you’ve got a clear shot right there.”

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Published: May 13, 2002 in People.

Filed in: About Viggo

Tagged: artist, egoless, Lord of the Rings

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