Acting credits
69
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Cliff Curtis
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.1
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Movies: 63Series: 13Crew credits: 11
TMDB ID: 7248
IMDb ID: nm0193295
Known for: Acting
Born: July 27, 1968
Age: 58
Place of birth: Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1993 - 2031
Years active: 39
Average TMDB rating: 6.7
Wikidata: Q359325
Also known as
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis
Other jobs
Executive Producer (5)Producer (4)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
Movie credits linked with Cliff Curtis.
Dec 17, 2031
Avatar 5
as Tonowari
2031 Movie
Dec 19, 2029
Avatar 4
as Tonowari
2029 Movie
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Tonowari
2025 Movie
Last Breath
as Andre Jenson (Captain)
2025 Movie
In the Fire of War
as Wi Toka
2024 Movie
Meg 2: The Trench
as Mac
2023 Movie
Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
2023 Movie
True Spirit
as Ben Bryant
2023 Movie
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023 Movie
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Tonowari
2022 Movie
The Raid
as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
2022 Movie
Murina
as Javier
2022 Movie
Reminiscence
as Cyrus Booth
2021 Movie
Doctor Sleep
as Billy Freeman
2019 Movie
Herbs: Songs of Freedom
Producer
2019 Movie
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Jonah Hobbs
2019 Movie
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
The Meg
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2018 Movie
Risen
as Yeshua
2016 Movie
Last Knights
as Lt. Cortez
2015 Movie
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
as Self
2014 Movie
The Dark Horse
as Genesis
2014 Movie
Great Expectations
Executive Producer
2012 Movie
A Thousand Words
as Dr. Sinja
2012 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Cliff Curtis.
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
as Self - "Tonowari" • 1 eps
2025 Series
Chief of War
as Keoua • 9 eps
2025 Series
KAOS
as Poseidon • 6 eps
2024 Series
Swift Street
as Robert • 8 eps
2024 Series
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Jason Trissop • 4 eps
2023 Series
INVINCIBLE
as Paul (voice) • 12 eps
2021 Series
Fear the Walking Dead
as Travis Manawa • 37 eps
2015 Series
Gang Related
as Javier Acosta • 13 eps
2014 Series
Missing
as Dax Miller • 10 eps
2012 Series
Body of Proof
as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames • 2 eps
2011 Series
Trauma
as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck • 18 eps
2009 Series
Traffic
as Adam Kadyrov • 3 eps
2004 Series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Nemis • 1 eps
1995 Series