Cliff Curtis

Acting · Born 1968-07-27 in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

Biography

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.

Filmography

• Whale Rider as Porourangi
• Once Were Warriors as Bully
• Sunshine as Searle
• Training Day as Smiley
• The Piano as Mana
• Blow as Pablo Escobar
• Fracture as Detective Flores
• The Insider as Sheikh Fadlallah
• Runaway Jury as Frank Herrera
• True Spirit as Ben Bryant

TV

• Fear the Walking Dead as Travis Manawa
• Invincible as Paul (voice)
• Traffic as Adam Kadyrov
• Trauma as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
• Missing as Dax Miller
• Gang Related as Javier Acosta
• Body of Proof as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
• Swift Street as Robert
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Nemis
• KAOS as Poseidon