Cliff Curtis
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Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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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Credits
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
as Tonowari
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Training Day (2001)
as Smiley
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
as Tonowari
The Meg (2018)
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
as Mac
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
as Jonah Hobbs
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Colombiana (2011)
as Emilio
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
as Cy Coates
Doctor Sleep (2019)
as Billy Freeman
The Last Airbender (2010)
as Fire Lord Ozai
Sunshine (2007)
as Searle
10,000 BC (2008)
as Tic-Tic
Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Maori native
Blow (2001)
as Escobar
Reminiscence (2021)
as Cyrus Booth
Last Knights (2015)
as Lt. Cortez
Collateral Damage (2002)
as Claudio Perrini
The Piano (1993)
as Mana
Fracture (2007)
as Detective Flores
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
as Kip
The Insider (1999)
as Sheikh Fadlallah
Last Breath (2025)
as Andre Jenson (Captain)
Three Kings (1999)
as Amir Abdullah
Push (2009)
as Hook Waters
Deep Rising (1998)
as Mamooli
Whale Rider (2003)
as Porourangi
Risen (2016)
as Yeshua
A Thousand Words (2012)
as Dr. Sinja
Runaway Jury (2003)
as Frank Herrera
The Fountain (2006)
as Captain Ariel
The Majestic (2001)
as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
Crossing Over (2009)
as Hamid Baraheri
True Spirit (2023)
as Ben Bryant
Virus (1999)
as Hiko
Murina (2022)
as Javier
Avatar 4 (2029)
as Tonowari
Overnight (1995)
as Jim
In the Fire of War (2024)
as Wi Toka
Avatar 5 (2031)
as Tonowari
Once Were Warriors (1994)
as Bully
Rapa Nui (1994)
as Short Ears
Jubilee (2000)
as Billy Williams
Hercules in the Underworld (1994)
as Nessus
River Queen (2005)
as Wiremu
Inside Pandora's Box (2023)
as Self
The Raid (2022)
as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
The Dark Horse (2014)
as Genesis
A Journey to Sundance (2023)
as Self
Point of Origin (2002)
as Mike Camello
Fracture (2004)
as Inspector Franklin
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? (2014)
as Self
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth (2007)
as Himself
Spooked (2004)
as Mort Whitman
Desperate Remedies (1993)
as Fraser
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata (2011)
as Himself
Chicken (1996)
as Zeke
Heinous Crime (2004)
as Pizza Delivery Man