Sam Walters unearths five famous figures who - incomprehensibly - found something better to do than drive a truck.
4 Viggo Mortensen
Fighting his way to fourth place is Viggo Mortensen, the sword-swinging Aragorn from Lord of the Rings (the one who isn't the pretty boy and isn't the dwarf).
Born in New York but with a Danish father and American mother, Mortensen spent his childhood moving between America and Denmark. After high school in the US, he returned to Denmark and became a truck driver, based in Esbjerg, a seaport on the south-western coast of the country.
However, he eventually neglected the lorry drivers' fraternity and again returned to New York, where he studied for a degree in Spanish at St Lawrence University and then went on to act.
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