Cliff Curtis
ActingClifford 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.
Known For
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Tonowari
Avatar: The Way of Water
Tonowari
Meg 2: The Trench
Mac
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Jonah Hobbs
The Meg
James 'Mac' Mackreides
Colombiana
Emilio
Doctor Sleep
Billy Freeman
Training Day
Smiley
Last Breath
Andre Jenson (Captain)
Sunshine
Searle
Filmography — Acting
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Tonowari
Avatar: The Way of Water
Tonowari
Meg 2: The Trench
Mac
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Jonah Hobbs
The Meg
James 'Mac' Mackreides
Colombiana
Emilio
Doctor Sleep
Billy Freeman
Training Day
Smiley
Last Breath
Andre Jenson (Captain)
Sunshine
Searle
Live Free or Die Hard
Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Blow
Pablo Escobar
The Last Airbender
Fire Lord Ozai
Risen
Yeshua
Runaway Jury
Frank Herrera
Fracture
Detective Flores
Push
Hook Waters
The Piano
Mana
Avatar 4
Tonowari
10,000 BC
Tic-Tic
Six Days Seven Nights
Kip
Three Kings
Amir Abdullah
Last Knights
Lt. Cortez
Reminiscence
Cyrus Booth
The Fountain
Captain Ariel
The Insider
Sheikh Fadlallah
Deep Rising
Mamooli
Collateral Damage
Claudio Perrini
The Majestic
The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
A Thousand Words
Dr. Sinja
Avatar 5
Tonowari
Virus
Hiko
Bringing Out the Dead
Cy Coates
Once Were Warriors
Bully
Crossing Over
Hamid Baraheri
Whale Rider
Porourangi
True Spirit
Ben Bryant
Murina
Javier
Rapa Nui
Short Ears
River Queen
Wiremu
A Journey to Sundance
Self
The Raid
Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
Hercules in the Underworld
Nessus
Point of Origin
Mike Camello
The Dark Horse
Genesis
Spooked
Mort Whitman
In the Fire of War
Wi Toka
Inside Pandora's Box
Self
Jubilee
Billy Williams
Fracture
Inspector Franklin
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Himself
Heinous Crime
Pizza Delivery Man
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
Self
Desperate Remedies
Fraser
Chicken
Zeke
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Himself
