
Cliff Curtis
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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Known For
Acting History
2031
Avatar 5 as Tonowari
2029Avatar 4 as Tonowari
2025Avatar: Fire and Ash as Tonowari
2025Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films as Self - "Tonowari"
2025Chief of War as Keoua
2025Last Breath as Andre Jenson (Captain)
2024KAOS as Poseidon
2024In the Fire of War as Wi Toka
2024Swift Street as Robert
2023Meg 2: The Trench as Mac
2023Inside Pandora's Box as Self
2023True Spirit as Ben Bryant
2023A Journey to Sundance as Self
2022Avatar: The Way of Water as Tonowari
2022The Raid as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
2022Murina as Javier
2021Reminiscence as Cyrus Booth
2021INVINCIBLE as Paul (voice)
2019Doctor Sleep as Billy Freeman
2019Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as Jonah Hobbs
2018The Meg as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2016Risen as Yeshua
2015Fear the Walking Dead as Travis Manawa
2015Last Knights as Lt. Cortez
2014Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? as Self
2014The Dark Horse as Genesis
2014Gang Related as Javier Acosta
2012Missing as Dax Miller
2012A Thousand Words as Dr. Sinja
2011Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata as Himself
2011Colombiana as Emilio
2011Body of Proof as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
2010The Last Airbender as Fire Lord Ozai
2009Trauma as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
2009Crossing Over as Hamid Baraheri
2009Push as Hook Waters
200810,000 BC as Tic-Tic
2007Live Free or Die Hard as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
2007Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Himself
2007Fracture as Detective Flores
2007Sunshine as Searle
2006The Fountain as Captain Ariel
2005River Queen as Wiremu
2004Spooked as Mort Whitman
2004Fracture as Inspector Franklin
2004Heinous Crime as Pizza Delivery Man
2004Traffic as Adam Kadyrov
2003Whale Rider as Porourangi
2003Runaway Jury as Frank Herrera
2002Point of Origin as Mike Camello
2002Collateral Damage as Claudio Perrini
2001The Majestic as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
2001Training Day as Smiley
2001Blow as Pablo Escobar
2000Jubilee as Billy Williams
1999The Insider as Sheikh Fadlallah
1999Bringing Out the Dead as Cy Coates
1999Three Kings as Amir Abdullah
1999Virus as Hiko
1998Six Days Seven Nights as Kip
1998Deep Rising as Mamooli
1996Chicken as Zeke
1995Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Nemis
1994Hercules in the Underworld as Nessus
1994Once Were Warriors as Bully
1994Rapa Nui as Short Ears
1993Desperate Remedies as Fraser
1993The Piano as Mana









