Cliff Curtis
Date of birth: 1968-07-27
Place of birth: Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Clifford Vivian Devon "Cliff" Curtis, Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis, کلیف کورتیس
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.
Movie Credits
Once Were Warriors
1994-09-02
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H
Whale Rider
2003-01-30
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti
Sunshine
2007-04-05
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A tea
Training Day
2001-10-05
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who is
Live Free or Die Hard
2007-06-20
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker
The Piano
1993-05-18
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu
Blow
2001-04-04
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husban
Three Kings
1999-09-27
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe wi
Fracture
2007-04-19
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case f
10,000 BC
2008-03-04
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secu
River Queen
2005-09-12
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themse
Bringing Out the Dead
1999-10-22
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he
The Insider
1999-10-28
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Mi
Deep Rising
1998-01-30
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it,
Collateral Damage
2002-02-06
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism
Push
2009-02-04
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert
Inside Pandora's Box
2023-03-28
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies
Crossing Over
2009-02-10
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life,
Colombiana
2011-07-27
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-
A Thousand Words
2012-03-07
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set
In the Fire of War
2024-06-27
Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal batt
Hercules in the Underworld
1994-11-07
When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth
Meg 2: The Trench
2023-08-02
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chao
Desperate Remedies
1993-11-26
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Br
Point of Origin
2002-06-20
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Six Days Seven Nights
1998-06-12
In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long
Fracture
2004-09-04
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for
Runaway Jury
2003-01-16
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell
The Last Airbender
2010-06-30
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put
Chicken
1996-04-22
On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own dea
The Dark Horse
2014-07-17
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome p
The Raid
2022-10-13
Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau, who must c
Spooked
2004-10-31
Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who
Jubilee
2000-04-13
Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even see
Virus
1999-01-14
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life for
Last Knights
2015-04-03
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks
Risen
2016-02-18
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the myster
Rapa Nui
1994-06-03
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make c
Heinous Crime
2004-08-14
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 200
True Spirit
2023-01-26
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nons
The Meg
2018-08-09
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleash
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022-12-14
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake
The Fountain
2006-11-22
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death
The Majestic
2001-12-21
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019-07-31
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they
Doctor Sleep
2019-10-30
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghos
Reminiscence
2021-08-18
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising sea
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
2007-05-15
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2011-10-23
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away sud
Murina
2022-04-08
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a we
Avatar 4
2029-12-19
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Avatar 5
2031-12-17
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.
A Journey to Sundance
2021-01-01
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all
Last Breath
2025-02-27
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of fee
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
2014-08-18
It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025-12-17
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and