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Marton Csokas
Marton Csokas, 2008
Born	June 30, 1966 (1966-06-30) (age 43) Invercargill, New Zealand

Marton Csokas (Hungarian pronunciation: [maːɾton tʃoːkaːʃ]; born June 30, 1966) is a New Zealand actor. He played Lord Celeborn in the films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He has also made repeated appearances in Xena: Warrior Princess as Xena's past love and ally, Borias, and Khrafstar. He also played Jarda in the The Bourne Supremacy.

Biography

Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent, and his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer.^[1][2][3] Csokas attended King's College, Auckland, and graduated from Toi Whakaari, The New Zealand Drama School in 1989.

Csokas holds Hungarian citizenship in addition to being a citizen of New Zealand, his native country. Csokas's stage credits include plays by Tom Stoppard and William Shakespeare in the 1990s in New Zealand, and in Australia Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2007) and Peribáñez (2006) with Company B.^[4]

He has been involved with actress Eva Green since they met in 2005 on the set of Kingdom of Heaven. In 2008, after three years of a long distance relationship, he moved to London to live with her. ^[5]

Filmography

References

External links

• Marton Csokas at the Internet Movie Database