Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 27, 1968
Place of Birth:
Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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Cliff Curtis
Biography
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand-born actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC's Trauma, and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | Avatar 5 | Tonowari |
| 2029 | Avatar 4 | Tonowari |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Tonowari |
| 2025 | Last Breath | Andre Jenson (Captain) |
| 2024 | In the Fire of War | Wi Toka |
| 2023 | Inside Pandora's Box | Self |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Mac |
| 2023 | True Spirit | Ben Bryant |
| 2022 | The Raid | Tāwharau ‘Taffy’ |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Tonowari |
| 2022 | Murina | Javier |
| 2021 | Reminiscence | Cyrus Booth |
| 2021 | A Journey to Sundance | Self |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Jonah Hobbs |
| 2019 | Doctor Sleep | Billy Freeman |
| 2018 | The Meg | James 'Mac' Mackreides |
| 2016 | Risen | Yeshua |
| 2015 | Last Knights | Lt. Cortez |
| 2014 | The Dark Horse | Genesis |
| 2014 | Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? | Self |
| 2012 | A Thousand Words | Dr. Sinja |
| 2011 | Colombiana | Emilio |
| 2011 | Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata | Himself |
| 2010 | The Last Airbender | Fire Lord Ozai |
| 2009 | Push | Hook Waters |
| 2009 | Crossing Over | Hamid Baraheri |
| 2008 | 10,000 BC | Tic-Tic |
| 2007 | Sunshine | Searle |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard | Deputy Director Miguel Bowman |
| 2007 | Fracture | Detective Flores |
| 2007 | Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Himself |
| 2006 | The Fountain | Captain Ariel |
| 2005 | River Queen | Wiremu |
| 2004 | Fracture | Inspector Franklin |
| 2004 | Spooked | Mort Whitman |
| 2004 | Heinous Crime | Pizza Delivery Man |
| 2003 | Whale Rider | Porourangi |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Frank Herrera |
| 2002 | Collateral Damage | Claudio Perrini |
| 2002 | Point of Origin | Mike Camello |
| 2001 | Training Day | Smiley |
| 2001 | Blow | Pablo Escobar |
| 2001 | The Majestic | The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid |
| 2000 | Jubilee | Billy Williams |
| 1999 | Three Kings | Amir Abdullah |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead | Cy Coates |
| 1999 | The Insider | Sheikh Fadlallah |
| 1999 | Virus | Hiko |
| 1998 | Deep Rising | Mamooli |
| 1998 | Six Days Seven Nights | Kip |
| 1996 | Chicken | Zeke |
| 1994 | Once Were Warriors | Bully |
| 1994 | Hercules in the Underworld | Nessus |
| 1994 | Rapa Nui | Short Ears |
| 1993 | The Piano | Mana |
| 1993 | Desperate Remedies | Fraser |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Chief of War | |
| 2024 | Swift Street | Robert |
| 2024 | KAOS | Poseidon |
| 2021 | INVINCIBLE | Paul (voice) |
| 2015 | Fear the Walking Dead | Travis Manawa |
| 2014 | Gang Related | Javier Acosta |
| 2012 | Missing | Dax Miller |
| 2011 | Body of Proof | FBI Special Agent Derek Ames |
| 2009 | Trauma | Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck |
| 2004 | Traffic | Adam Kadyrov |
| 1995 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Nemis |