Cliff Curtis
Acting1968Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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.
Known For
Acting History
2031
Avatar 5
as Tonowari
2029
Avatar 4
as Tonowari
2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Tonowari
Last Breath
as Andre Jenson (Captain)
Chief of War
TVas Keoua• 9 eps
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
TVas Self - "Tonowari"
Chief of War
TVCo-Producer
2024
2023
Meg 2: The Trench
as Mac
True Spirit
as Ben Bryant
Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
Invincible
TVas Paul (voice)• 8 eps
2022
The Raid
as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Tonowari
Murina
as Javier
The Raid
Executive Producer
2021
Reminiscence
as Cyrus Booth
2019
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Jonah Hobbs
Doctor Sleep
as Billy Freeman
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Executive Producer
2018
The Meg
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2016
Risen
as Yeshua
2015
Last Knights
as Lt. Cortez
Fear the Walking Dead
TVas Travis Manawa• 37 eps
2014
2012
2011
Colombiana
as Emilio
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
as Himself
Body of Proof
TVas FBI Special Agent Derek Ames• 2 eps
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Co-Producer
2010
The Last Airbender
as Fire Lord Ozai
Boy
Producer
2009
2008
10,000 BC
as Tic-Tic
2007
Fracture
as Detective Flores
Live Free or Die Hard
as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Sunshine
as Searle
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
as Himself
Eagle vs Shark
Producer
Coffee and Allah
Executive Producer
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
TVas Adam Kadyrov
Tama Tū
Producer
2003
Whale Rider
as Porourangi
Runaway Jury
as Frank Herrera
2002
Collateral Damage
as Claudio Perrini
Point of Origin
as Mike Camello
2001
2000
Jubilee
as Billy Williams
1999
The Insider
as Sheikh Fadlallah
Virus
as Hiko
Bringing Out the Dead
as Cy Coates
Three Kings
as Amir Abdullah
1998
Deep Rising
as Mamooli
Six Days Seven Nights
as Kip
1996
Chicken
as Zeke
1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
TVas Nemis• 1 eps
1994
1993
The Piano
as Mana
Desperate Remedies
as Fraser