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Marton Csokas

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Marton Csokas
Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
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Marton was born in Invercargill, Aotearoa (New Zealand), to Margaret Christine (Rayner), a nurse, and Márton Csókás, a mechanical engineer. His father is Hungarian and his mother is Australian (of English, Irish, and Danish origin). He inherited some of his talents from his father, who was also a trained opera singer and at one time, a trapeze artist in the Hungarian Circus.

His academic training began at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, where he commenced a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art History, and then transferred to, Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa/ The New Zealand Drama School, graduating in December, 1989. His first acting role was in Te Whanau a Tuanui Jones by Apairana Taylor at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington New Zealand, (1990). He has since had an eclectic career of theatre, television and film.

He appeared in the 1994 movie Jack Brown Genius (1996) in which he played the role of Dennis. After starring for two years in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street (1992), he starred in the 1996 movie Broken English (1996) as Darko. After performing in a great number of theatrical plays, writing his own and co-founding his own theatre company, the Stronghold Theatre, Marton got the role of Tarlus in an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995). After that, he continued working with Renaissance Pictures, playing the roles of Khrafstar and Borias in the 1997-1998 seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess (1995). He continued appearing in many other shows in both NZ and Australia, such as Farscape (1999), BeastMaster (1999), Water Rats (1996), Cleopatra 2525 (2000), and more, returning for the role of Borias in three episodes of the 2000-2001 season of Xena: Warrior Princess (1995). He was also in many movies produced in NZ and Australia, such as Hurrah (1998), The Monkey's Mask (2000) and the mini-series The Farm (2001). He is a citizen of the European Union and Hungary, and is a permanent resident of the United States.

Most recently, Csokas starred opposite Denzel Washington in Sony's hit film The Equalizer. He played a brutal fixer for the Russian mafia and a formidable villain to Washington's reluctant hero.

Csokas appeared in Darren Aronofsky's Noah as well as Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, a sequel to the 2005 hit film Sin City. Csokas also played the psychiatrist, "Dr. Kafka," in the hit movie sequel, The Amazing Spiderman 2, alongside Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx.

Csokas most famously starred as "Lord Celeborn" in one of the highest-grossing film series of all time, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some of his other film credits include 2010's The Debt opposite Jessica Chastain and Paul Greengrass' The Bourne Supremacy with Matt Damon. His depth of experience is illustrated in Asylum in which he starred opposite Natasha Richardson and Ian McKellen, as well as the Ridley Scott epic, Kingdom of Heaven, with Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Liam Neeson.

On the small screen, Csokas recently starred on the History Channel's miniseries Sons of Liberty as well as Discovery Channel's miniseries Klondike with Tim Roth and Sam Shepard.

On stage, Csokas continues to work internationally, most recently starring in a production of Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes" at The New York Theatre Workshop by acclaimed director, Ivo van Hove. The play was noted by Time Magazine as one of the "Top 10 of Everything of 2010." The actor has numerous classical credits, including 'Orsino' in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at the National Theatre of Great Britain, 'Anthony' in "Anthony and Cleopatra" at the Theatre of a New Audience, 'Brutus' in "Julius Caesar" and as 'Septimus' in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" in his birthplace of New Zealand. On the Australian stage, Csokas has appeared as 'George' in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," directed by Benedict Andrews of the Schaubuhne Theatre in Berlin and in "Riflemind," directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman at the Sydney Theatre Company.
BornJune 30, 1966
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    • 2 wins & 4 nominations

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Cate Blanchett and Marton Csokas in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Sophie Marceau and Marton Csokas in With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Sophie Marceau and Marton Csokas in With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Marton Csokas in With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Sophie Marceau and Marton Csokas in With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Marton Csokas and Rade Serbedzija in Broken English (1996)
Marton Csokas in Sons of Liberty (2015)
Marton Csokas in Into the Badlands (2015)
Marton Csokas and Madeleine Mantock in Into the Badlands (2015)
Marton Csokas in Into the Badlands (2015)
Marton Csokas in Into the Badlands (2015)
Marton Csokas in Into the Badlands (2015)

Known for

Charlize Theron in Æon Flux (2005)
Æon Flux
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  • Trevor Goodchild
  • 2005
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
6.6
  • Dr. Ashley Kafka
  • 2014
Denzel Washington in The Equalizer (2014)
The Equalizer
7.2
  • Teddy
  • 2014
xXx (2002)
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5.8
  • Yorgi
  • 2002

Credits

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Actor

  • Cuckoo
    • Post-production
    • 2023
  • Sleeping Dogs
    • Joseph Wieder
    • In Production
    • 2024
  • Wagner in Venice
    • Franz Liszt
    • Pre-production
  • Freelance
    • Post-production
  • House of Spoils
    • Marcello
    • In Production
  • Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Chevalier (2022)
    Chevalier
    • Montalembert
    • 2022
  • Russell Crowe, Steven Berkoff, Julian Glover, Marton Csokas, Steve Dent, Jodhi May, Michael McKell, Ray Winstone, Stanley Morgan, Billy Clements, Ricky Chaplin, Martin Coe, Joe Egan, Olivia Chenery, Noeleen Comiskey, Julius Francis, Glen Fox, Matt Hookings, Tim Cullingworth-Hudson, Mark Epstein, Lucy Martin, and James Mackie in Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
    Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
    • Lord Rushworth
    • 2022
  • Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver in The Last Duel (2021)
    The Last Duel
    • Crespin
    • 2021
  • Charlotte Rampling in Juniper (2021)
    Juniper
    • Robert
    • 2021
  • Marton Csokas, Ewen Leslie, Eva Green, Eve Hewson, and Himesh Patel in The Luminaries (2020)
    The Luminaries
    • Francis Carver
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2020
  • Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church in Divorce (2016)
    Divorce
    • Skip Zakarian
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Liam Neeson in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
    Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
    • L. Patrick Gray
    • 2017
  • Daniel Wu in Into the Badlands (2015)
    Into the Badlands
    • Quinn
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2017
  • Caterina Murino and Emilia Clarke in Voice from the Stone (2017)
    Voice from the Stone
    • Klaus
    • 2017
  • Jim Carrey in Dark Crimes (2016)
    Dark Crimes
    • Kozlov
    • 2016
  • Burn Your Maps (2016)
    Burn Your Maps
    • Connor
    • 2016
  • Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving (2016)
    Loving
    • Sheriff Brooks
    • 2016
  • Sons of Liberty (2015)
    Sons of Liberty
    • General Thomas Gage
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2015
  • Denzel Washington in The Equalizer (2014)
    The Equalizer
    • Teddy
    • 2014
  • Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Eva Green in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
    Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
    • Damien Lord
    • 2014

Soundtrack

  • Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, and Jessica Chastain in The Debt (2010)
    The Debt
    • performer: "Deutschland Uber Alles" (uncredited)
    • 2010

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Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ 1¼″ (1.86 m)
  • Born
    • June 30, 1966
    • Invercargill, New Zealand
  • Parents
      Margaret Christine Rayner
  • Other works
    Appeared in several 'Western' themed commercials for "Speights", a draught beer produced in Otago, New Zealand.
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    Last name, Csokas, is pronounced ''Cho-Kash''.
  • Quotes
    I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

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