Cliff Curtis
Acting Born Jul 27, 1968 Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand 24 credits
Biography
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.
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- Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) as Tonowari
- INVINCIBLE (2021) as Paul (voice)
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) as Jason Trissop
- Fear the Walking Dead (2015) as Travis Manawa
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) as Tonowari
- Body of Proof (2011) as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) as Nemis
- Meg 2: The Trench (2023) as Mac
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) as Jonah Hobbs
- The Meg (2018) as James 'Mac' Mackreides
- Chief of War (2025) as Keoua
- Training Day (2001) as Smiley
- KAOS (2024) as Poseidon
- The Last Airbender (2010) as Fire Lord Ozai
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007) as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
- Colombiana (2011) as Emilio
- Trauma (2009) as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
- Sunshine (2007) as Searle
- 10,000 BC (2008) as Tic-Tic
- Doctor Sleep (2019) as Billy Freeman
- Blow (2001) as Pablo Escobar
- Fracture (2007) as Detective Flores
- Six Days Seven Nights (1998) as Kip
- Three Kings (1999) as Amir Abdullah