Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.

Jeffs is the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film Rain (2001).

Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner John Toon, cinematographer of Sunshine Cleaning and her other films.

Marton Csokas (Hungarian: Csókás Márton [ˈtʃoːkaːʃ ˈmaːɾton]; born 30 June 1966) is a New Zealand film and television actor.

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

Two of Csokas' most notable roles are 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, and Guy de Lusignan in Kingdom of Heaven. He has also made repeated appearances in Xena: Warrior Princess as Xena's past love and ally, Borias. He also played Jarda in The Bourne Supremacy. He was also the villain in xXx, and played opposite Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux.

Csokas holds dual New Zealand and Hungarian citizenship. 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.