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Cliff Curtis
Born: 27th Jul 1968 Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 70
Film: 57 (81%)
Television: 13 (19%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, History, Animation, War, TV Movie, Family
Filmography
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Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark ... view
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Paul (voice)
2031
The fifth installment of the franchise. Plot TBA. ... view
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Tonowari
2029
The fourth installment of the franchise. Plot TBA. ... view
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Tonowari
2025
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop ... view
Character:
Tonowari
Nov 2025 (first aired)
This two-part documentary provides a fascinating glimpse into the making of the Oscar-winning box office phenomenon "Avatar: The Way of Water" and fea ... view
Character:
Self - "Tonowari" (1 ep.)
Jul 2025 (first aired)
With Hawaii's four kingdoms divided by war, the ferocious warrior Kaʻiana embarks on an epic mission to unite his people—as an existential threat a ... view
Character:
Keoua (9 ep.)
2025
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. ... view
Character:
Andre Jenson (Captain)
Aug 2024 (first aired)
As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind. ... view
Character:
Poseidon (6 ep.)
Original title: Ka Whawhai Tonu
2024
Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864. ... view
Character:
Wi Toka
Apr 2024 (first aired)
When 21-year-old Elsie discovers that her hustler father Robert is being hunted down by a merciless crime boss over a bad debt, she decides to help hi ... view
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Robert (8 ep.)
Nov 2023 (first aired)
After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrott ... view
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Jason Trissop (3 ep.)
2023
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens the ... view
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Mac
2023
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema ... view
Character:
Self
2023
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect h ... view
Character:
Ben Bryant
2023
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all over the world, as well as my own struggles to fi ... view
Character:
Self
2022
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo ... view
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Tonowari
Original title: Muru
2022
Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau, who must choose between duty to his badge or his people ... view
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Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
2022
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea. ... view
Character:
Javier
2021
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe ... view
Character:
Cyrus Booth
Mar 2021 (first aired)
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birt ... view
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Paul (voice) (11 ep.)
2019
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te ... view
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Billy Freeman
2019
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But w ... view
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Jonah Hobbs
2018
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Sh ... view
Character:
James 'Mac' Mackreides
2016
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following ... view
Character:
Yeshua
Aug 2015 (first aired)
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, f ... view
Character:
Travis Manawa (37 ep.)
2015
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come ... view
Character:
Lt. Cortez
2014
It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey to meet the cast and see where they are now. ... view
Character:
Self
2014
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his st ... view
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Genesis
May 2014 (first aired)
Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side.
Detective Ryan Lopez is a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force. What th ... view
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Javier Acosta (13 ep.)
Mar 2012 (first aired)
Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him ... view
Character:
Dax Miller (10 ep.)
2012
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own s ... view
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Dr. Sinja
2011
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The film ... view
Character:
Himself
2011
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitm ... view
Character:
Emilio
Mar 2011 (first aired)
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car ... view
Character:
FBI Special Agent Derek Ames (2 ep.)
2010
A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt for global domination. Aang ... view
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Fire Lord Ozai
Sep 2009 (first aired)
When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco City Hospital is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their vic ... view
Character:
Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck (18 ep.)
2009
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. The ... view
Character:
Hamid Baraheri
2009
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare ... view
Character:
Hook Waters
2008
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. ... view
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Tic-Tic
2007
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i ... view
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Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
2007
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’. ... view
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Himself
2007
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put h ... view
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Detective Flores
2007
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but ... view
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Searle
2006
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence ... view
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Captain Ariel
2005
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B ... view
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Wiremu
2004
Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, ... view
Character:
Mort Whitman
2004
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentali ... view
Character:
Inspector Franklin
2004
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004. ... view
Character:
Pizza Delivery Man
Jan 2004 (first aired)
It's a life-and-death struggle for most secret agents on America's borders - in the sinister and seductive world of illegal trafficking, most supply a ... view
Character:
Adam Kadyrov (3 ep.)
2003
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Māori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. ... view
Character:
Porourangi
2003
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, w ... view
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Frank Herrera
2002
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California. ... view
Character:
Mike Camello
2002
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr ... view
Character:
Claudio Perrini
2001
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a lon ... view
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The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
2001
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. ... view
Character:
Smiley
2001
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. ... view
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Pablo Escobar
2000
Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing th ... view
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Billy Williams
1999
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. ... view
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Sheikh Fadlallah
1999
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried ev ... view
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Cy Coates
1999
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gol ... view
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Amir Abdullah
1999
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be des ... view
Character:
Hiko
1998
In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin ... view
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Kip
1998
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, t ... view
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Mamooli
1996
On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one ca ... view
Character:
Zeke
Jan 1995 (first aired)
The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people. ... view
Character:
Nemis (1 ep.)
1994
When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again ... view
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Nessus
1994
In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent lov ... view
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Bully
1994
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a ... view
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Short Ears
1993
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose ... view
Character:
Fraser
1993
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a batt ... view
Character:
Mana