Viggo Mortensen was born October 20, 1958 in Manhattan. His Danish father had met his American mother skiing in Norway, where she worked in the U.S. Embassy. Mortensen spent much of his childhood in Argentina, where his father found work managing a ranch. His parents divorced when he was 11 and Mortensen returned to upstate [...]

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In case you’ve been too distracted clockin’ those big bills, here are the first five installments of the United Federation of Character Actors, a bi-monthly feature at This Distracted Globe which profiles a character actor on the eve of his or her birthday. Click on their names to backtrack to the original article. Joan Allen, [...]

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Synopsis After taking part in a sting netting fugitives by luring them into what they think is an event for the New York Yankees, Detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) celebrates twenty years on the NYPD by getting drunk and calling his ex-wife. He responds to a murder scene on the west side of Manhattan – [...]

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