Cliff Curtis
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.96 |
| Birthday | 1968-07-27 |
| Place of Birth | Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand |
| Also Known As | Clifford Vivian Devon "Cliff" Curtis, Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis, Κλιφ Κέρτις, 克利夫·柯蒂斯, |
1994
Once Were Warriors
7.4/399
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together duri...
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Once Were Warriors
1993
The Piano
7.381/1428
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor G...
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The Piano
2003
Whale Rider
7.1/374
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, w...
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Whale Rider
2007
Sunshine
6.952/3621
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 th...
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Sunshine
2007
Live Free or Die Hard
6.625/5598
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to...
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Live Free or Die Hard
2001
Training Day
7.498/5662
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.
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Training Day
2001
Blow
7.4/4148
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....
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Blow
2007
Fracture
7.282/3759
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...
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Fracture
1999
Three Kings
6.66/1973
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...
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Three Kings
2008
10,000 BC
5.5/2832
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
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10,000 BC
2005
River Queen
5.9/28
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...
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River Queen
1999
Bringing Out the Dead
6.603/1011
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...
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Bringing Out the Dead
1999
The Insider
7.458/1740
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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The Insider
1998
Deep Rising
6.166/654
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...
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Deep Rising
2002
Collateral Damage
5.761/1326
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...
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Collateral Damage
2009
Push
6.15/2195
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare...
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Push
2009
Crossing Over
6.2/349
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...
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Crossing Over
2011
Colombiana
6.609/2478
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 hitman...
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Colombiana
2012
A Thousand Words
6.1/1275
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...
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A Thousand Words
1994
Hercules in the Underworld
5.6/89
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...
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Hercules in the Underworld
2003
Runaway Jury
6.9/1209
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Runaway Jury
1993
Desperate Remedies
5.7/10
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...
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Desperate Remedies
2002
Point of Origin
6.5/15
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
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Point of Origin
1998
Six Days Seven Nights
6.068/1398
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...
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Six Days Seven Nights
2004
Fracture
7.2/4
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...
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Fracture
2010
The Last Airbender
4.648/3842
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation...
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The Last Airbender
1996
Chicken
4.5/1
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...
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Chicken
2014
The Dark Horse
6.238/124
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...
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The Dark Horse
2004
Spooked
6/1
Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers,...
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Spooked
2000
Jubilee
5/1
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...
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Jubilee
1999
Virus
5.391/565
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...
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Virus
2015
Last Knights
6.437/1033
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 to a...
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Last Knights
1994
Rapa Nui
6.3/141
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of...
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Rapa Nui
2016
Risen
6.177/806
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...
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Risen
2018
The Meg
6.257/7390
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...
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The Meg
2022
Avatar: The Way of Water
7.624/11264
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...
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Avatar: The Way of Water
2006
The Fountain
6.94/2667
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence...
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The Fountain
2001
The Majestic
6.747/700
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...
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The Majestic
2019
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
6.861/6939
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...
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
Doctor Sleep
7.151/4207
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...
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Doctor Sleep
2021
Reminiscence
6.627/1669
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...
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Reminiscence
2007
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
8.2/4
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
2011
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
0/0
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...
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Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2022
Murina
6.5/43
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
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Murina
2025
Avatar 3
0/0
The third entry in the Avatar franchise.
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Avatar 3
2029
Avatar 4
0/0
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Avatar 4
2031
Avatar 5
0/0
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Avatar 5
2023
Meg 2: The Trench
6.57/3115
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...
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Meg 2: The Trench
2022
Muru
8.5/4
Inspired by actual events, the story of a local Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau, who must choose between his badge and his people, when the Governmen...
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Muru
2004
Heinous Crime
7/1
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.
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Heinous Crime
2023
True Spirit
6.985/199
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...
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True Spirit
2023
Inside Pandora's Box
7.7/3
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema
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Inside Pandora's Box
2024
Ka Whawhai Tonu
0/0
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.
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