Ladies and gentlemen, crack open the a bottle of bubbly and oil up your six-pack: Because today, October 20, 2008, testosteroney Hollywood veteran Viggo Mortenson turns 50 YEARS OLD.
I repeat: Viggo Mortenson Is Now 50.
It seems like just yesterday that Viggo was sobering up with Sandra Bullock in 28 Days. And my oh my, what an innocent child I must have been when V-Mortz travelled with those pocket sized ring bearers to Mordor.
Let’s take a look at the road Viggo travelled to 50.
Here he is at around age 7.
Little did he know at this age that nearly 40 years later, he would be involved in a naked man-on-man fight scene in a Russian Bathhouse. But I digress.
See more of Viggo’s Road to 50, including his high school yearbook photo, ahead.
Viggo graduated Watertown High School, where he was a champion swimmer and photographer. He also had the golden locks of a Greek God… evident in even the most Black and White of yearbook photos:
His first major film was as an Amish man in Witness back in 1989:
Even dressed as a mentally ill French schoolboy, he is still delightful and butt-chinned.
Next, he played a man who liked to lick blood off of his fingers in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
Here’s Viggo at 33 in The Indian Runner. God bless those dozens of directors who found it necessary for his “character” to bare his tattooed chest at will:
Let’s skip ahead a few years. Even though Big V has a real independent streak as an actor, he’s also got to put delicious protein-packed food on the table. Thus, I present to you a still from the 1997 epic film G.I. Jane:
While I try my best to never mention the 1998 Psycho remake, I couldn’t let this post pass without bringing you Viggo pillowtalking noneotherthan Anne Heche:
At 42, Viggo took on his least challenging role, as a hot baseball player recovering from an alcohol addiction in 28 Days. The men looks like a G-DD-MNED B-BY:
From 2001-2003, Viggo took part in his most challenging and fame-making role yet: As Aragorn, or “Strider”, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Then… Hidalgo.
That’s all that needs to be said about that.
This year, Viggo was recently scene with a Cyrano-esque goatee in Appaloosa:
And coming up this year, he’ll be starring in the movie version of Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road:
Hopefully, the above photo timeline will prove that the man is, indeed, 50, and going strong. To celebrate, I will choose to stare at this photo of Viggo’s signature “faraway stare”, and just wonder what in God’s name is on his beautiful mind.
