Cliff Curtis

Born: 1968-07-27

Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand-born 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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Avatar: The Way of Water

as Tonowari
Released: 2022-12-14

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family...

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Meg 2: The Trench

as Mac
Released: 2023-08-02

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into...

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as Jonah Hobbs
Released: 2019-08-01

Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off,...

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Don't See
as James 'Mac' Mackreides
Released: 2018-08-09

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally...

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Colombiana

as Emilio
Released: 2011-07-27

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a...

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

as Tonowari
Released: 2025-12-17

In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully...

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as Agent Bowman
Released: 2007-06-20

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young...

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as Smiley
Released: 2001-10-05

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective...

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as Billy Freeman
Released: 2019-10-30

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the...

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The Last Airbender

as Fire Lord Ozai
Released: 2010-06-30

The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must...

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as Searle
Released: 2007-04-05

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A...

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10,000 BC

as Tic-Tic
Released: 2008-03-04

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to...

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Fracture

as Detective Flores
Released: 2007-04-19

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut...

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Blow

as Pablo Escobar
Released: 2001-04-04

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her...

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Risen

as Yeshua
Released: 2016-02-18

Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the...

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Runaway Jury

as Frank Herrera
Released: 2003-01-16

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer...

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A Thousand Words

as Dr. Sinja
Released: 2012-03-07

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has...

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Deep Rising

as Mamooli
Released: 1998-01-30

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot...

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The Insider

as Sheikh Fadlallah
Released: 1999-10-28

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a...

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as Kip
Released: 1998-06-12

In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a...

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The Piano

as Mana
Released: 1993-05-18

A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband...

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as Claudio Perrini
Released: 2002-02-06

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international...

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as Hook Waters
Released: 2009-02-04

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the...

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Reminiscence

as Cyrus Booth
Released: 2021-08-18

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising...

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The Fountain

as Captain Ariel
Released: 2006-11-22

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love,...

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Three Kings

as Amir Abdullah
Released: 1999-09-27

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they...

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True Spirit

as Ben Bryant
Released: 2023-01-26

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo,...

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Bringing Out the Dead

as Cy Coates
Released: 1999-10-22

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of...

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Last Knights

as Lt. Cortez
Released: 2015-04-03

When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour –...

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Once Were Warriors

as Bully
Released: 1994-09-02

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of...

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Virus

as Hiko
Released: 1999-01-14

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life...

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Crossing Over

as Hamid Baraheri
Released: 2009-02-10

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better...

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Avatar 4

as Tonowari
Released: 2029-12-19

The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

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The Majestic

as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
Released: 2001-12-21

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and...

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Whale Rider

as Porourangi
Released: 2003-01-30

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a...

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Rapa Nui

as Short Ears
Released: 1994-06-03

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before...

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Hercules in the Underworld

as Nessus
Released: 1994-11-07

When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the...

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The Dark Horse

as Genesis
Released: 2014-07-17

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must...

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Avatar 5

as Tonowari
Released: 2031-12-17

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Last Breath

as uncredited
Released: 2025-02-28

A true story about seasoned deep-sea divers who battle the raging elements to rescue their...

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The Raid

as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
Released: 2022-10-13

Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau, who...

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Murina

as Javier
Released: 2022-04-08

A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during...

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River Queen

as Wiremu
Released: 2005-09-12

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find...

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Point of Origin

as Mike Camello
Released: 2002-06-20

An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.

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Inside Pandora's Box

as Self
Released: 2023-03-28

A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new...

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Struggle Without End

as Wi Toka
Released: 2024-06-27

Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal...

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Spooked

as Mort Whitman
Released: 2004-10-31

Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones,...

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Jubilee

as Billy Williams
Released: 2000-04-13

Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even...

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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

as Himself
Released: 2007-05-15

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.

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Fracture

as Inspector Franklin
Released: 2004-09-04

A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart...

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Desperate Remedies

as Fraser
Released: 1993-11-26

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful...

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Chicken

as Zeke
Released: 1996-04-22

On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own...

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Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata

as Himself
Released: 2011-10-23

Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away...

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Heinous Crime

as Pizza Delivery Man
Released: 2004-08-14

Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking...

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Fear the Walking Dead

as Travis Manawa
First aired: 2015-08-23

What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in...

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INVINCIBLE

as Paul (voice)
First aired: 2021-03-25

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful...

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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

as Nessus
First aired: 1995-01-29

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

as Nemis
First aired: 1995-01-29

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

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KAOS

as Poseidon
First aired: 2024-08-29

As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are...

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Body of Proof

as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
First aired: 2011-03-29

Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But...

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Missing

as Dax Miller
First aired: 2012-03-15

Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race...

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Trauma

as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
First aired: 2009-09-28

When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco City Hospital is first on the scene,...

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Gang Related

as Javier Acosta
First aired: 2014-05-22

Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side. Detective Ryan Lopez is a...

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Traffic

as Adam Kadyrov
First aired: 2004-01-26

Going beyond the Academy Award-winning movie, Traffic: The Miniseries takes an inside look at...

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Swift Street

as Robert
First aired: 2024-04-24

When 21-year-old Elsie discovers that her hustler father Robert is being hunted down by a...

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