Cliff Curtis

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Cliff Curtis

Acting 58 July 27, 1968

Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider…

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Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

7.6 2022 Movie
The Meg

The Meg

6.3 2018 Movie
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

6.8 2019 Movie
Training Day

Training Day

7.5 2001 Movie
INVINCIBLE

INVINCIBLE

8.6 2021 TV Show
Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard

6.6 2007 Movie
Fear the Walking Dead

Fear the Walking Dead

7.6 2015 TV Show
Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

7.1 2019 Movie
Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar: Fire and Ash

7.6 2025 Movie
Blow

Blow

7.4 2001 Movie
Fracture

Fracture

7.3 2007 Movie
Sunshine

Sunshine

7.0 2007 Movie

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Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand 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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2031
    Avatar 5

    Movie Tonowari

  2. 2029
    Avatar 4

    Movie Tonowari

  3. 2025
    Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Movie Tonowari

  4. 2025
    Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films

    TV show Self - "Tonowari"

  5. 2025
    Chief of War

    TV show Keoua

  6. 2025
    Last Breath

    Movie Andre Jenson (Captain)

  7. 2024
    KAOS

    TV show Poseidon

  8. 2024
    In the Fire of War

    Movie Wi Toka

  9. 2024
    Swift Street

    TV show Robert

  10. 2023
    Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    TV show Jason Trissop

  11. 2023
    Meg 2: The Trench

    Movie Mac

  12. 2023
    Inside Pandora's Box

    Movie Self

  13. 2023
    True Spirit

    Movie Ben Bryant

  14. 2023
    A Journey to Sundance

    Movie Self

  15. 2022
    Avatar: The Way of Water

    Movie Tonowari

  16. 2022
    The Raid

    Movie Tāwharau ‘Taffy’

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  1. 2022
    Murina

    Movie Javier

  2. 2021
    Reminiscence

    Movie Cyrus Booth

  3. 2021
    INVINCIBLE

    TV show Paul (voice)

  4. 2019
    Doctor Sleep

    Movie Billy Freeman

  5. 2019
    Herbs: Songs of Freedom

    Movie Producer

  6. 2019
    Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

    Movie Jonah Hobbs

  7. 2019
    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Movie Executive Producer

  8. 2018
    The Meg

    Movie James 'Mac' Mackreides

  9. 2016
    Risen

    Movie Yeshua

  10. 2015
    Fear the Walking Dead

    TV show Travis Manawa

  11. 2015
    Last Knights

    Movie Lt. Cortez

  12. 2014
    Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

    Movie Self

  13. 2014
    The Dark Horse

    Movie Genesis

  14. 2014
    Gang Related

    TV show Javier Acosta

  15. 2012
    Great Expectations

    Movie Executive Producer

  16. 2012
    Missing

    TV show Dax Miller

  17. 2012
    A Thousand Words

    Movie Dr. Sinja

  18. 2011
    Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata

    Movie Himself

  19. 2011
    Colombiana

    Movie Emilio

  20. 2011
    Body of Proof

    TV show FBI Special Agent Derek Ames

  21. 2010
    The Last Airbender

    Movie Fire Lord Ozai

  22. 2010
    Boy

    Movie Producer

  23. 2009
    Trauma

    TV show Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck

  24. 2009
    Crossing Over

    Movie Hamid Baraheri