---
name: "Marton Csokas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marton-csokas"
fi1m_id: "marton-csokas"
imdb_id: "nm0190744"
tmdb_id: 20982
wikidata_id: "Q315118"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 June 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 9
updated: "2026-10-13T21:28:10.799854+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marton Csokas

## Identity

Marton Csokas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marton-csokas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marton-csokas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0190744
- **TMDB ID:** 20982
- **Wikidata ID:** Q315118
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marton_Csokas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315118, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20982

Actor. Born 30 June 1966 in Invercargill, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 June 1966, Invercargill, New Zealand
- **Active:** 2001–present
- **Also known as:** Marton Paul Csokas
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 10: 9 acting, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Matt Damon](https://film.one/person/matt-damon.md), [Ridley Scott](https://film.one/person/ridley-scott.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 9 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 73 (5), 2010s 56 (4), 2020s 65 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 65 across 9 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 6 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Adventure 6, Action 5, Drama 5, Thriller 4, Fantasy 3, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 21 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $4,737m across 9 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marton_Csokas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315118, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20982

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Bourne Supremacy*](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-supremacy.md) (81)
- **Disney+:** [*The Amazing Spider-Man 2*](https://film.one/film/the-amazing-spider-man-2.md) (54)
- **Netflix:** [*xXx*](https://film.one/film/xxx.md) (52)

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## Fi1m on Marton Csokas

> Marton Csokas is the quiet one at the bad end of the table, the villain who speaks slowly and stands still and lets you work out the threat yourself. A real skill; the big films that hire him for it seldom give it room.

Watch what Marton Csokas does with a sentence. He takes his time over the consonants, keeps his hands where you can see them, gives the person opposite every courtesy, and somewhere in the middle of it you realise you would rather be in another room. That is the trick he is hired for: charm that turns to threat without anything visibly changing. He is nearly always the antagonist, or the man with authority who has decided not to use it kindly, and he plays both with the same aristocratic calm.

The career comes in phases, and they are not hard to read. New Zealand stage and *Shortland Street* in the early 1990s, then Australian work and four years as Borias on *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1997–2001). Peter Jackson made him Celeborn in *The Fellowship of the Ring* (2001) and *The Return of the King* (2003), which put him in front of the world and gave him little to do once he was there. After that came the Hollywood heavies: *xXx* (2002), Jarda in *The Bourne Supremacy* (2004), Guy de Lusignan in *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005), the courteous villain Teddy in *The Equalizer* (2014), Crespin in *The Last Duel* (2021). In between he went to Australia for *Romulus, My Father* (2007) and to television for *Into the Badlands*, and the smaller films are where he has most been allowed to show what else he can do.

What works is the refusal to play evil as evil. He has said that when he plays a bad character he looks for "their charm, their good points, the things that make them human", and *The Equalizer* is the clearest case: a man who is unfailingly pleasant and plainly should not be. Ridley Scott has used him twice, in *Kingdom of Heaven* and *The Last Duel*, both times as part of the period furniture rather than as a lead, which tells you how the industry sees him. Our own reviews of the two films of his we have covered, *The Bourne Supremacy* and *The Last Duel*, do not mention him at all. That is not a slight. It is what happens to an actor who is given one scene and plays it without raising his voice. We remember his encounter with Matt Damon in *The Bourne Supremacy* more clearly than the size of the part deserves, and we were unsettled by it, because he barely moves. The stillness is the threat.

The complaint against him is the obvious one: the villain work has been steady enough that the leads never came, and the large productions cut his parts short. Celeborn is a fine piece of casting and a brief one. If you want to see what he can do, go to the Australian films. If you are watching a big one and a well-spoken man appears with the faint air of having already decided how this ends, you know who it is.

## Biography

Marton Csokas is a New Zealand actor. Born on 30 June 1966 in Invercargill, he trained at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama School, after earlier studies in art history.

He is known for playing Celeborn in *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (2001) and *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003), Guy de Lusignan in *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005), and Jarda in *The Bourne Supremacy* (2004). Other film roles include appearances in *The Equalizer* (2014) and *Noah* (2014). Csokas began his career in New Zealand television, including the soap opera *Shortland Street*, and has worked in theatre.

He won an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for *Romulus, My Father* (2007) and has been nominated for other Australian film awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nzonscreen.com.*

## On Fi1m (10)

### Performed in (9) — the average rests on these

- *The Last Duel* (2021), Fi1m 65, as Crespin — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md)
- *Noah* (2014), Fi1m 58, as Lamech — [page](https://film.one/film/noah.md)
- *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* (2014), Fi1m 54, as Dr. Ashley Kafka — [page](https://film.one/film/the-amazing-spider-man-2.md)
- *Alice in Wonderland* (2010), Fi1m 48, as Charles Kingsleigh — [page](https://film.one/film/alice-in-wonderland-2010.md)
- *The Debt* (2010), Fi1m 65, as Young Stefan Gold — [page](https://film.one/film/the-debt-2010.md)
- *The Bourne Supremacy* (2004), Fi1m 81, as Jarda — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-supremacy.md)
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003), Fi1m 88, as Celeborn — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king.md)
- *xXx* (2002), Fi1m 52, as Yorgi — [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md)
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (2001), Fi1m 90, as Celeborn — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones* (2002), Fi1m 54, as Poggle the Lesser (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones.md)

## Complete filmography (79)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Goolagong* (2026), series, as Vic Edwards
- *Black Gold* (2025), series, as Tyler Robertson
- *Man with No Past* (2025), as Soach
- *House of Spoils* (2024), as Marcello
- *Head South* (2024), as Gordon
- *Shadow Land* (2024), as Eliot Davrow
- *Sleeping Dogs* (2024), as Dr. Joseph Wieder
- *Cuckoo* (2024), as Luis
- *Freelance* (2023), as Colonel Jan Koehorst
- *Chevalier* (2023), as Montalembert
- *Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher* (2022), as Lord Rushworth
- *The Last Duel* (2021), as Crespin — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md)
- *Juniper* (2021), as Robert
- *The Luminaries* (2020), series, as Francis Carver
- *Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House* (2017), as Pat Gray
- *Voice from the Stone* (2017), as Klaus
- *Loving* (2016), as Sheriff Brooks
- *Dark Crimes* (2016), as Kozlov
- *Divorce* (2016), series, as Skip Zakarian
- *Burn Your Maps* (2016), as Connor Firth
- *Into the Badlands* (2015), series, as Quinn
- *Sons of Liberty* (2015), series, as General Thomas Gage
- *The Equalizer* (2014), as Teddy
- *Sin City: A Dame to Kill For* (2014), as Damien Lord
- *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* (2014), as Dr. Ashley Kafka — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-amazing-spider-man-2.md)
- *Noah* (2014), as Lamech — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/noah.md)
- *Klondike* (2014), series, as The Superintendent
- *Pawn* (2013), as Lieutenant Barnes
- *Rogue* (2013), series, as Jimmy Laszlo
- *Dead Europe* (2012), as Nico
- *Falcón* (2012), series, as Javier Falcón
- *Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter* (2012), as Jack Barts
- *Dream House* (2011), as Jack Patterson
- *The Debt* (2010), as Young Stefan Gold — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-debt-2010.md)
- *South Solitary* (2010), as Jack Fleet
- *With Love... from the Age of Reason* (2010), as Malcolm
- *Covert Affairs* (2010), series, as Ivan Kravec
- *Alice in Wonderland* (2010), as Charles Kingsleigh — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/alice-in-wonderland-2010.md)
- *The Tree* (2010), as George Elrick
- *Romulus, My Father* (2007), as Hora
- *The New World* (2005), Thanks
- *Æon Flux* (2005), as Trevor Goodchild
- *Asylum* (2005), as Edgar Stark
- *The Great Raid* (2005), as Captain Redding
- *Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith* (2005), as Poggle the Lesser (voice) (uncredited) — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith.md)
- *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005), as Guy de Lusignan
- *The Bourne Supremacy* (2004), as Jarda — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-supremacy.md)
- *Evilenko* (2004), as Vadim Timurovic Lesiev
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003), as Celeborn — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king.md)
- *Timeline* (2003), as Sir William De Kere / William Decker
- *Kangaroo Jack* (2003), as Mr. Smith
- *Garage Days* (2002), as Shad Kern
- *xXx* (2002), as Yorgi — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md)
- *Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones* (2002), as Poggle the Lesser (voice) (uncredited) — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones.md)
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (2001), as Celeborn — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md)
- *Rain* (2001), as Cady
- *The Monkey's Mask* (2001), as Nick Maitland
- *The Farm* (2001), series, as Adrian Beckett
- *The Three Stooges* (2000), as Ted Healy
- *Cleopatra 2525* (2000), series, as Krider
- *BeastMaster* (1999), series, as Qord
- *Accidents* (1999), as Chug
- *The Lost World* (1999), series, as Kenner
- *Farscape* (1999), series, as Br'Nee — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md)
- *All Saints* (1998), series, as Brother Thomas
- *Hurrah* (1998), as Raoul
- *Wildside* (1997), series, as Larry Lodans
- *Jack Brown: Genius* (1996), as Dennis
- *Broken English* (1996), as Darko
- *Twilight of the Gods* (1996), as Soldier
- *Water Rats* (1996), series, as Robert Tremain
- *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995), series, as Borias / Belach, Khrafstar, Borias — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md)
- *Hercules: The Legendary Journeys* (1995), series, as Tarlus
- *Halifax f.p.* (1994), series, as John Garth
- *A Game With No Rules* (1994), as Kane
- *Shortland Street* (1992), series, as Leonard Dodds, Leonard Rossi-Dodds
- *The Ray Bradbury Theater* (1985), series, as Sid
- *Wagner In Venice*, as Liszt
- *Fleur*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Marton Csokas](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-ce38a9ed0049.jpg) Marton Csokas — Andrewmaccoll at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Marton_Csokas_by_andrew_maccoll.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marton Csokas at the press conference of The Equalizer, 2014 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-059fb691f1d3.jpg) Marton Csokas at the press conference of The Equalizer, 2014 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Marton_Csokas_at_the_press_conference_of_The_Equalizer%2C_2014_Toronto_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Marton_Csokas_at_the_press_conference_of_The_Equalizer%2C_2014_Toronto_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marton Csokas at the press conference of The Equalizer, 2014 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-5f1c21785109.jpg) Marton Csokas at the press conference of The Equalizer, 2014 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Marton_Csokas_at_the_press_conference_of_The_Equalizer%2C_2014_Toronto_Film_Festival_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Marton_Csokas_at_the_press_conference_of_The_Equalizer%2C_2014_Toronto_Film_Festival_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marton Csokas](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-99c1616f1179.jpg) Marton Csokas — Image via TMDB
- ![Marton Csokas](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-7963cdf3432a.jpg) Marton Csokas — Image via TMDB
- ![Marton Csokas](https://film.one/media/person/98548/gallery-647f1abffc63.jpg) Marton Csokas — Image via TMDB

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