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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1968-07-27 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

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

Acting

2031

Avatar 5 as Tonowari

2029

Avatar 4 as Tonowari

2025

Last Breath as Andre Jenson (Captain)

2024

Swift Street as Robert
KAOS as Poseidon

2023

2022

The Raid as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
Murina as Javier

2021

Reminiscence as Cyrus Booth
INVINCIBLE as Paul (voice)

2019

2018

The Meg as James 'Mac' Mackreides

2016

Risen as Yeshua

2015

Last Knights as Lt. Cortez
Fear the Walking Dead as Travis Manawa

2014

The Dark Horse as Genesis
Gang Related as Javier Acosta

2012

A Thousand Words as Dr. Sinja
Missing as Dax Miller

2011

Colombiana as Emilio
Body of Proof as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames

2010

The Last Airbender as Fire Lord Ozai

2009

Push as Hook Waters
Crossing Over as Hamid Baraheri
Trauma as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck

2008

10,000 BC as Tic-Tic

2007

Sunshine as Searle
Live Free or Die Hard as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Fracture as Detective Flores

2006

The Fountain as Captain Ariel

2005

River Queen as Wiremu

2004

Fracture as Inspector Franklin
Spooked as Mort Whitman
Heinous Crime as Pizza Delivery Man
Traffic as Adam Kadyrov

2003

Whale Rider as Porourangi
Runaway Jury as Frank Herrera

2002

Collateral Damage as Claudio Perrini
Point of Origin as Mike Camello

2001

Training Day as Smiley
Blow as Pablo Escobar
The Majestic as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid

2000

Jubilee as Billy Williams

1999

Three Kings as Amir Abdullah
The Insider as Sheikh Fadlallah
Virus as Hiko

1998

1996

Chicken as Zeke

1995

1994

1993

The Piano as Mana

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Production

2022

The Raid as Executive Producer

2019

2014

The Dark Horse as Executive Producer

2012

Great Expectations as Executive Producer

2010

Boy as Producer

2007

Eagle vs Shark as Producer
Coffee and Allah as Executive Producer

2004

Tama Tū as Producer