Actor
· Acting
Cliff Curtis
Born 1968-07-27
📍 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 (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 69
Avatar 5
as Tonowari
2031
Avatar 4
as Tonowari
2029
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Tonowari
2025
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
as Self - "Tonowari"
2025
Chief of War
as Keoua
2025
Last Breath
as Andre Jenson (Captain)
2025
KAOS
as Poseidon
2024
In the Fire of War
as Wi Toka
2024
Swift Street
as Robert
2024
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Jason Trissop
2023
Meg 2: The Trench
as Mac
2023
Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
2023
True Spirit
as Ben Bryant
2023
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Tonowari
2022
The Raid
as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
2022
Murina
as Javier
2022
Reminiscence
as Cyrus Booth
2021
INVINCIBLE
as Paul (voice)
2021
Doctor Sleep
as Billy Freeman
2019
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Jonah Hobbs
2019
The Meg
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2018
Risen
as Yeshua
2016
Fear the Walking Dead
as Travis Manawa
2015
Last Knights
as Lt. Cortez
2015
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
as Self
2014
The Dark Horse
as Genesis
2014
Gang Related
as Javier Acosta
2014
Missing
as Dax Miller
2012
A Thousand Words
as Dr. Sinja
2012
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
as Himself
2011
Colombiana
as Emilio
2011
Body of Proof
as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
2011
The Last Airbender
as Fire Lord Ozai
2010
Trauma
as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
2009
Crossing Over
as Hamid Baraheri
2009
Push
as Hook Waters
2009
10,000 BC
as Tic-Tic
2008
Live Free or Die Hard
as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
2007
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
as Himself
2007
Fracture
as Detective Flores
2007
Sunshine
as Searle
2007
The Fountain
as Captain Ariel
2006
River Queen
as Wiremu
2005
Spooked
as Mort Whitman
2004
Fracture
as Inspector Franklin
2004
Heinous Crime
as Pizza Delivery Man
2004
Traffic
as Adam Kadyrov
2004
Whale Rider
as Porourangi
2003
Runaway Jury
as Frank Herrera
2003
Point of Origin
as Mike Camello
2002
Collateral Damage
as Claudio Perrini
2002
The Majestic
as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
2001
Training Day
as Smiley
2001
Blow
as Pablo Escobar
2001
Jubilee
as Billy Williams
2000
The Insider
as Sheikh Fadlallah
1999
Bringing Out the Dead
as Cy Coates
1999
Three Kings
as Amir Abdullah
1999
Virus
as Hiko
1999
Six Days Seven Nights
as Kip
1998
Deep Rising
as Mamooli
1998
Chicken
as Zeke
1996
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Nemis
1995
Hercules in the Underworld
as Nessus
1994
Once Were Warriors
as Bully
1994
Rapa Nui
as Short Ears
1994
Desperate Remedies
as Fraser
1993
The Piano
as Mana
1993