Marton Csokas
Highest Rated: 93% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lowest Rated: 0% Dark Crimes (2018)
Birthday: Jun 30, 1966
Birthplace: Invercargill, New Zealand
An actor of remarkable intensity whether playing comedy, drama, or classical-stage roles, Marton Csokas first became familiar to stateside audiences as Borias on the hit television series Xena: Warrior Princess. And though American audiences may not have been privy to his early stage and screen work, his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring made him a familiar face. Born in New Zealand in June 1966, Csokas' early schooling didn't exactly encourage creativity, and the future actor didn't discover his passion for the stage and screen until his late teens. While studying literature and art history for a year at Canterbury and Christchurch, Csokas became involved with a writer's club and theater company before graduating from the New Zealand Drama School and co-founding the The Stronghold Theater. Steadily gaining experience and harboring a growing passion for classical-stage drama, the actor landed a role in the television series Shortland Street before making his feature debut in Jack Brown Genius (1994). Numerous small film roles followed, and, after becoming a recognizable star in his native country, Csokas began to familiarize himself with American television audiences with Xena and such small-screen features as The Three Stooges (2000). His experience in the fantasy world of Xena prepared him well for his role as Celeborn in the first Lord of the Rings movie in 2001, and American audiences later saw the versatile actor as a villainous criminal mastermind bent on world domination in XXX (2002). He appeared in director Alex Proyas' decidedly upbeat Garage Days the same year and in Richard Donner's time travel fantasy Timeline in 2003.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62% | Burn Your Maps | Connor | — | 2019 |
| 0% | Dark Crimes | Kozlow | — | 2018 |
| 35% | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | L. Patrick Gray | $0.8M | 2017 |
| 36% | Voice from the Stone | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 89% | Loving | Sheriff Brooks | $7.7M | 2016 |
| 59% | The Equalizer | Teddy | $85.3M | 2014 |
| 43% | Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Damien Lord | $11.1M | 2014 |
| 52% | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Dr. Ashley Kafka | $183.3M | 2014 |
| 76% | Noah | Lamech | $101.2M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Pawn | Sgt. Barnes | $2.6K | 2013 |
| 34% | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Jack Barts | $37.4M | 2012 |
| 60% | Dead Europe | Nico | — | 2012 |
| 6% | Dream House | Jack Patterson | $21.4M | 2011 |
| 77% | The Debt | Young Stephan | $31.2M | 2011 |
| 72% | The Tree | George Elrick | $69.7K | 2011 |
| 67% | South Solitary | Jack Fleet | $0.2M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | L'âge de raison (With Love... from the Age of Reason) | Malcolm | — | 2010 |
| 51% | Alice in Wonderland | Charles Kingsleigh | $319.4M | 2010 |
| 55% | Romulus, My Father | Hora | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | The Path to Redemption | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 9% | Aeon Flux | Trevor Goodchild | $25.9M | 2005 |
| 38% | The Great Raid | Maj. Redding | $10.1M | 2005 |
| 36% | Asylum | Edgar Stark | $0.3M | 2005 |
| 39% | Kingdom of Heaven | Guy de Lusignan | $47.3M | 2005 |
| 81% | The Bourne Supremacy | Jarda | $176.1M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Evilenko | Vadim Timurovic Lesiev | — | 2004 |
| 93% | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Celeborn | $364.1M | 2003 |
| 11% | Timeline | De Kere | $19.4M | 2003 |
| 43% | Garage Days | Shad Kern | — | 2003 |
| 8% | Kangaroo Jack | Mr. Smith | $66.8M | 2003 |
| 48% | XXX | Yorgi | $141.2M | 2002 |
| 91% | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Celeborn | $314.1M | 2001 |
| 85% | Rain | Cady | $0.3M | 2001 |
| 43% | The Monkey's Mask | Nick Maitland | — | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Best of Boys in Love | Actor | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | The Three Stooges | Ted Healy | — | 2000 |
| 82% | Broken English | Darko | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Jack Brown Genius | Actor | — | 1995 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 83% |
Into the Badlands 2015-2019 |
Quinn |
2019 2018 2017 2015 |
| 77% |
Divorce 2016 |
Skip Zakarian |
2018 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Rogue 2013-2017 |
Jimmy Laszlo |
2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 |
| 58% |
Sons of Liberty 2015 |
Gen. Thomas Gage |
2015 |
| 80% |
Klondike 2014 |
Steele |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Xena: Warrior Princess 1995-2001 |
Borias Khrafstar Belach |
2001 1999 1998 1997 |
| 90% |
Farscape 1999-2003 |
Br'Nee |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 1995-1999 |
Tarlus |
1996 |
QUOTES FROM Marton Csokas CHARACTERS
Max Dillon/Electro says: You wanna know how powerful I am?!
Dr. Ashley Kafka says: Yeah!
Max Dillon/Electro says: Well, so do I! I'm dyin' to know, Doc! But you better make damn sure you kill me this time! Because if you don't, I'm gonna kill the light! So everyone in this city is gonna know how it feels to live in my world: a world without power, a world without mercy, a world without Spider-Man. And every one of you is going to see me for who I truly am!
Dr. Ashley Kafka says: And who are you?!
Max Dillon/Electro says: Don't you know?! I'm Electro!
Celeborn says: Eight that there are here, yet nine there were set out from Rivendell. Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him.
Jarda says: Word in the ether was you'd lost your memory.
David Webb/Jason Bourne says: You still should have moved.
Mr. Smith says: You're not wrong.
Young Stefan says: No matter what the truth stays in this room.
Young Stefan says: No matter what, the truth stays in this room.