Marton Csokas
New Zealand cinema and television expanded its international profile considerably during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, drawing on a generation of performers trained within the country's developing drama institutions. Marton Csokas, born on 30 June 1966 in Invercargill, New Zealand, emerged from that environment to build a career as a film and television actor working across multiple countries and productions.
Csokas received his secondary education at King's College in Auckland before undertaking formal actor training at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand's national drama school. That institutional grounding placed him within a cohort of practitioners shaped by a curriculum emphasizing both classical and contemporary performance traditions. Holding citizenship in both New Zealand and Hungary, Csokas has occupied an unusual position among performers from the Pacific region, with dual national affiliations that reflect a bicultural personal background extending beyond the country of his birth.
His career has encompassed work in film and on television, with his screen presence documented across a range of productions in roles that have taken him well beyond the New Zealand industry into international markets. The breadth of his activity across both mediums — film and television — marks him as a practitioner who has sustained work in two distinct but often overlapping performance contexts over a significant span of years.
Csokas is catalogued in several major international bibliographic and authority databases, including records held under the Library of Congress Name Authority File, the Integrated Authority File maintained by the German National Library, and the International Standard Name Identifier system, with the authorized label "Csokas, Marton, 1966-" used consistently across those records. His inclusion in these cataloguing systems reflects the breadth of documentation surrounding his professional output and provides researchers and archivists with stable reference points for tracing his work across film and television over the course of his career.
Quotes by Marton Csokas
I’m relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that’s not very pleasant.
The sexual deviance – I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they only have sex once every 2,000 years or so.