Early life

Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, to Margaret Christine (née Rayner), a nurse, and Márton Csókás, who worked as a mechanical engineer. His father was Hungarian and his mother had English, Irish, and Danish ancestry.Csokas has a younger brother, Robert. He holds dual New Zealand and Hungarian citizenship.

Career

Csokas made his acting debut in the New Zealand drama series Shark in the Park as Terry Mercer. He appeared in one episode titled "Technical K.O.". For two years (from 1993 until 1995), he portrayed Leonard Rossi-Dodds in the soap opera Shortland Street. In 1996, he starred in the romantic drama film Broken English. From 1997 to 2001, he maintained a recurring role in Xena: Warrior Princess, portraying Xena's past love and ally Borias. Two of Csokas' most notable roles are Lord 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), and Guy de Lusignan in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Csokas has also played the villain Yorgi in xXx (2002), Mr. Smith in Kangaroo Jack (2003), Jarda in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), and Trevor Goodchild in Æon Flux (2005).

Csokas' 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.

In 2007, he portrayed Hora in the drama film Romulus, My Father, for which he won an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2010, he appeared in the Tim Burton-directed fantasy film Alice in Wonderland, the French-Australian drama The Tree, the French romantic comedy With Love... from the Age of Reason, the romance film South Solitary, and the drama-thriller The Debt. In 2011, Csokas starred in the psychological thriller Dream House. The following year, he appeared in the fantasy action horror Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the drama film Dead Europe. For his role in Dead Europe, he was again nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

In 2013, Csokas co-starred in the crime-thriller Pawn with Forest Whitaker and Michael Chiklis, and portrayed Jimmy Laszlo in the DirecTV police drama Rogue, starring opposite Thandie Newton. In 2014, he starred in the films Noah, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and The Equalizer. That same year, he starred as Sam Steele in the Discovery Channel's scripted miniseries Klondike. Csokas then portrayed General Thomas Gage in History Channel's 3-part miniseries Sons of Liberty. In May 2015, he joined the main cast of AMC's martial arts drama series Into the Badlands. In 2016, he will co-star with Emilia Clarke in the supernatural thriller Voice from the Stone, star alongside Vera Farmiga in the comedy-drama Burn Your Maps, and co-star with Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton in the Jeff Nichols-directed drama film Loving.

Personal life

Csokas began dating French actress Eva Green after meeting on the set of Kingdom of Heaven in 2005. After three years in a long-distance relationship, he moved to London in 2008 to live with her. He split with Green in 2009 and now resides in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	A Game with No Rules	Kane	Short film
1994	Jack Brown Genius	Dennis
1995	Twilight of the Gods	Soldier	Short film
1996	Broken English	Darko
1998	Hurrah	Raoul Trujillo
2000	The Monkey's Mask	Nick Maitland
2000	Accidents	Chug	Short film
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Lord Celeborn
2001	Rain	Cady
2002	Garage Days	Shad Kern
2002	xXx	Yorgi
2002	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Poggle the Lesser	Uncredited; voice
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Lord Celeborn
2003	Timeline	Sir William De Kere
2003	Kangaroo Jack	Mr. Smith
2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Jarda
2004	Evilenko	Vadim Timurovic Lesiev
2005	Æon Flux	Trevor Goodchild
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Guy de Lusignan
2005	The Great Raid	Captain Redding
2005	Asylum	Edgar Stark
2007	Romulus, My Father	Hora
2010	Alice in Wonderland	Charles Kingsleigh
2010	The Tree	George Elrick
2010	With Love... from the Age of Reason	Malcolm
2010	South Solitary	Jack Fleet
2010	The Debt	Young Stefan Gold
2011	Dream House	Jack Patterson
2012	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	Jack Barts
2012	Dead Europe	Nico
2013	Pawn	Lieutenant Barnes
2014	Noah	Lamech
2014	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Dr. Ashley Kafka
2014	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Damien Lord
2014	The Equalizer	Nicolai "Teddy" Itchenko
2016	Loving	Sheriff Brooks
2016	Voice from the Stone	Klaus	Completed
2016	Burn Your Maps	Connor Firth	Completed
2016	True Crimes	Kozlow	In post-production
2017	Felt	L. Patrick Gray	Filming

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1990	Shark in the Park	Terry Mercer	Episode: "Technical K.O."
1992	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Sid	Episode: "By The Numbers"
1993-95	Shortland Street	Leonard Rossi-Dodds	Unknown episodes
1996	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Tarlus	Episode: "Promises"
1996	G.P.	Paul Deacon	Episode: "The Ceremony of Innocence"
1997-2001	Xena: Warrior Princess	Borias	10 episodes
1999	Water Rats	Robert Tremain	Episode: "Shark Bait"
1999	Wildside	Larry Lodans	Episode: "2.18"
1999	All Saints	Brother Thomas	Episode: "More Things in Heaven and Earth"
1999	Halifax f.p.	John Garth	Episode: "Swimming with the Sharks"
2000	The Three Stooges	Ted Healy	Television film
2000	The Lost World	Kenner	Episode: "Tourist Season"
2000	BeastMaster	Qord	3 episodes
2000	Farscape	Br'Nee	Episode: "Bone to be Wild"
2001	Cleopatra 2525	Krider	Episode: "No Thanks For The Memories"
2001	The Farm	Adrian Beckett	Miniseries
2012	Falcón	Javier Falcón	2 episodes
2013	Rogue	Jimmy Laszlo	10 episodes
2014	Klondike	Sam Steele	Miniseries; 6 episodes
2014	Covert Affairs	Ivan Kravec	2 episodes
2015	Sons of Liberty	General Thomas Gage	Miniseries; 3 episodes
2015	Into the Badlands	Baron Quinn	6 episodes

Video games

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2011	Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters	Thaal Sinestro	Voice

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Result
2007	AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Romulus, My Father	Won
2008	Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor		Won
2013	AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Dead Europe	Nominated
	Australian Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor		Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]