Cliff Curtis

Biography

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.

Filmography

Porourangi
Searle
Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
Pablo Escobar
Amir Abdullah
Detective Flores
Tic-Tic
Sheikh Fadlallah
Claudio Perrini
Hook Waters
Hamid Baraheri
Mike Camello
Inspector Franklin
Frank Herrera
Fire Lord Ozai
Tāwharau ‘Taffy’
Mort Whitman
Billy Williams
Hiko
Lt. Cortez
Yeshua
Short Ears
Pizza Delivery Man
Ben Bryant
James 'Mac' Mackreides
Captain Ariel
The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
Billy Freeman
Cyrus Booth
Javier
Tonowari
Tonowari
Andre Jenson (Captain)