New Zealand actor Marton Czokas was BOTD in 1966. Born in Invercargill to a Hungarian father and a New Zealand-born mother, he had an itinerant childhood as the family moved around New Zealand and Australia. After his parents’ divorce, he was raised by his mother, and studied at Canterbury University and Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. His made his screen debut in 1990 in TV police drama Shark In the Park and spent three years in long-running hospital series Shortland Street. He made his film debut in 1994’s Jack Brown Genius, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson, and turned heads as a lost British soldier having an affair with a Māori warrior in Stewart Main’s historical pastiche Twilight of the Gods. After a five-year stint in TV fantasy series Xena: Warrior Princess, he became better known as Lord Celeborn in Jackson’s stratospherically successful Lord of the Rings film trilogy. An international career followed, with roles in blockbusters XXX, The Bourne Supremacy, Æon Flux and Kingdom of Heaven, alongside appearances in independent films Rain, Romulus My Father (winning him an AACTA Award for best supporting actor), Dead Europe and the psychological thriller Asylum co-starring Ian McKellen. Famously once describing himself as “pansexual”, Czokas had a four-year relationship with his Kingdom of Heaven co-star Eva Green, reuniting onscreen in the 2020 TV adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Luminaries. His recent film work has included action films Noah, The Amazing Spider Man 2, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and The Equaliser, the historical epic The Last Duel, independent dramas Loving and Juniper, and the horror film Cuckoo with Hunter Schafer. Czokas lives in Los Angeles with his daughter. His current relationship status is unknown.