Cliff Curtis
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.
Movies
Colombiana
2011
as Emilio
A Thousand Words
2012
as Dr. Sinja
10,000 BC
2008
as Tic-Tic
Live Free or Die Hard
2007
as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Collateral Damage
2002
as Claudio Perrini
Whale Rider
2003
as Porourangi
Three Kings
1999
as Amir Abdullah
Sunshine
2007
as Searle
Push
2009
as Hook Waters
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as Tonowari
Fracture
2007
as Detective Flores
The Fountain
2006
as Captain Ariel
The Last Airbender
2010
as Fire Lord Ozai
Virus
1999
as Hiko
Blow
2001
as Pablo Escobar
Training Day
2001
as Smiley
Deep Rising
1998
as Mamooli
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as Tonowari
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
as Cy Coates
Once Were Warriors
1994
as Bully
Runaway Jury
2003
as Frank Herrera
