Cliff Curtis
July 27, 1968 (56 years old) in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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
Credits
- 2031 · Avatar 5 as Tonowari
- 2029 · Avatar 4 as Tonowari
- 2025 · Avatar: Fire and Ash as Tonowari
- 2024 · KAOS as Poseidon
- 2024 · Struggle Without End as Wi Toka
- 2024 · Swift Street as Robert
- 2023 · Meg 2: The Trench as Mac
- 2023 · Inside Pandora's Box as Self
- 2023 · True Spirit as Ben Bryant
- 2022 · Avatar: The Way of Water as Tonowari
- 2022 · The Raid as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
- 2022 · Murina as Javier
- 2021 · Reminiscence as Cyrus Booth
- 2021 · INVINCIBLE as Paul (voice)
- 2019 · Doctor Sleep as Billy Freeman
- 2019 · Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as Jonah Hobbs
- 2018 · The Meg as James 'Mac' Mackreides
- 2016 · Risen as Yeshua
- 2015 · Fear the Walking Dead as Travis Manawa
- 2015 · Last Knights as Lt. Cortez
- 2014 · The Dark Horse as Genesis
- 2014 · Gang Related as Javier Acosta
- 2012 · Missing as Dax Miller
- 2012 · A Thousand Words as Dr. Sinja
- 2011 · Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata as Himself
- 2011 · Colombiana as Emilio
- 2011 · Body of Proof as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
- 2010 · The Last Airbender as Fire Lord Ozai
- 2009 · Trauma as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
- 2009 · Crossing Over as Hamid Baraheri
- 2009 · Push as Hook Waters
- 2008 · 10,000 BC as Tic-Tic
- 2007 · Live Free or Die Hard as Agent Bowman
- 2007 · Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Himself
- 2007 · Fracture as Detective Flores
- 2007 · Sunshine as Searle
- 2006 · The Fountain as Captain Ariel
- 2005 · River Queen as Wiremu
- 2004 · Spooked as Mort Whitman
- 2004 · Fracture as Inspector Franklin
- 2004 · Heinous Crime as Pizza Delivery Man
- 2004 · Traffic as Adam Kadyrov
- 2003 · Whale Rider as Porourangi
- 2003 · Runaway Jury as Frank Herrera
- 2002 · Point of Origin as Mike Camello
- 2002 · Collateral Damage as Claudio Perrini
- 2001 · The Majestic as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
- 2001 · Training Day as Smiley
- 2001 · Blow as Pablo Escobar
- 2000 · Jubilee as Billy Williams
- 1999 · The Insider as Sheikh Fadlallah
- 1999 · Bringing Out the Dead as Cy Coates
- 1999 · Three Kings as Amir Abdullah
- 1999 · Virus as Hiko
- 1998 · Six Days Seven Nights as Kip
- 1998 · Deep Rising as Mamooli
- 1996 · Chicken as Zeke
- 1995 · Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Nessus
- 1995 · Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Nemis
- 1994 · Hercules in the Underworld as Nessus
- 1994 · Once Were Warriors as Bully
- 1994 · Rapa Nui as Short Ears
- 1993 · Desperate Remedies as Fraser
- 1993 · The Piano as Mana