Acting credits
68
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Cliff Curtis
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.6
Moderate attention
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Movies: 62Series: 12Crew credits: 10
TMDB ID: 7248
IMDb ID: nm0193295
Known for: Acting
Born: July 27, 1968
Age: 57
Place of birth: Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1993 - 2031
Years active: 39
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q359325
Also known as
Clifford Vivian Devon "Cliff" Curtis • Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis • کلیف کورتیس
Other jobs
Executive Producer (5)Producer (3)Co-Producer (2)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Cliff Curtis.
Dec 17, 2031
Avatar 5
as Tonowari
2031 Movie
Dec 19, 2029
Avatar 4
as Tonowari
2029 Movie
7.3
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Tonowari
2025 Movie
6.9
Last Breath
as Andre Jenson (Captain)
2025 Movie
5.8
In the Fire of War
as Wi Toka
2024 Movie
6.4
Meg 2: The Trench
as Mac
2023 Movie
5.6
Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
2023 Movie
7.0
True Spirit
as Ben Bryant
2023 Movie
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023 Movie
7.6
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Tonowari
2022 Movie
6.5
The Raid
as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
2022 Movie
6.4
Murina
as Javier
2022 Movie
6.5
Reminiscence
as Cyrus Booth
2021 Movie
7.1
Doctor Sleep
as Billy Freeman
2019 Movie
6.8
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Jonah Hobbs
2019 Movie
6.7
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
6.3
The Meg
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2018 Movie
6.3
Risen
as Yeshua
2016 Movie
6.4
Last Knights
as Lt. Cortez
2015 Movie
7.1
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
as Self
2014 Movie
6.3
The Dark Horse
as Genesis
2014 Movie
6.4
Great Expectations
Executive Producer
2012 Movie
6.1
A Thousand Words
as Dr. Sinja
2012 Movie
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
as Himself
2011 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Cliff Curtis.
6.7
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
as Self - "Tonowari" • 1 eps
2025 Series
7.3
Chief of War
as Keoua • 9 eps
2025 Series
7.2
KAOS
as Poseidon • 6 eps
2024 Series
5.7
Swift Street
as Robert • 8 eps
2024 Series
8.6
Invincible
as Paul (voice) • 8 eps
2021 Series
7.6
Fear the Walking Dead
as Travis Manawa • 37 eps
2015 Series
6.6
Gang Related
as Javier Acosta • 13 eps
2014 Series
6.2
Missing
as Dax Miller • 10 eps
2012 Series
7.0
Body of Proof
as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames • 2 eps
2011 Series
7.3
Trauma
as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck • 18 eps
2009 Series
5.8
Traffic
as Adam Kadyrov • 3 eps
2004 Series
7.0
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Nemis • 1 eps
1995 Series