Personal Life
Cervenka is of Irish and Czech ancestry. Cervenka married Doe in 1980; they divorced in 1985. According to Henry Rollins' book Get in the Van, he and Cervenka are good friends, and did several spoken words shows together in the 1980s.
Cervenka met Viggo Mortensen in 1986 on the set of the comedy Salvation!, a parody of televangelism. Mortensen played her husband, Jerome. They married on July 8, 1987. On January 28, 1988, Cervenka gave birth to her only child, Henry Blake Mortensen. Mortensen and Cervenka separated in 1992, and were divorced in 1997.
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