
Cliff Curtis
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances

Whale Rider
as Porourangi
2003

Once Were Warriors
as Bully
1994

Sunshine
as Searle
2007

Training Day
as Smiley
2001

Live Free or Die Hard
as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
2007

The Piano
as Mana
1993

Blow
as Pablo Escobar
2001

Three Kings
as Amir Abdullah
1999

Fracture
as Detective Flores
2007

10,000 BC
as Tic-Tic
2008

River Queen
as Wiremu
2005

Bringing Out the Dead
as Cy Coates
1999

The Insider
as Sheikh Fadlallah
1999

Deep Rising
as Mamooli
1998

Collateral Damage
as Claudio Perrini
2002

Push
as Hook Waters
2009

Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
2023

Crossing Over
as Hamid Baraheri
2009

Colombiana
as Emilio
2011

A Thousand Words
as Dr. Sinja
2012
TV Appearances

Traffic
as Adam Kadyrov
2004

Trauma
as Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
2009

Missing
as Dax Miller
2012

Gang Related
as Javier Acosta
2014

Fear the Walking Dead
as Travis Manawa
2015

Body of Proof
as FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
2011

INVINCIBLE
as Paul (voice)
2021

Swift Street
as Robert
2024

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Nemis
1995

KAOS
as Poseidon
2024

Chief of War
as Keoua
2025

Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
as Self - "Tonowari"
2025