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.
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Primarily2031 Avatar 5 as Tonowari
2029 Avatar 4 as Tonowari
2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash as Tonowari
2025 Last Breath as Andre Jenson (Captain)
2024 Struggle Without End as Wi Toka
2023 Meg 2: The Trench as Mac
2023 Inside Pandora's Box as Self
2023 True Spirit as Ben Bryant
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water as Tonowari
2022 The Raid as Tāwharau ‘Taffy’ Executive Producer
2022 Murina as Javier
2021 Reminiscence as Cyrus Booth
2021 A Journey to Sundance as Self
2019 Doctor Sleep as Billy Freeman
2019 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as Jonah Hobbs
2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Executive Producer
2018 The Meg as James 'Mac' Mackreides
2016 Risen as Yeshua
2015 Last Knights as Lt. Cortez
2014 Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? as Self
2014 The Dark Horse as Genesis Executive Producer
2012 Great Expectations Executive Producer
2012 A Thousand Words as Dr. Sinja
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata as Himself Co-Producer
2011 Colombiana as Emilio
2010 The Last Airbender as Fire Lord Ozai
2010 Boy Producer
2009 Crossing Over as Hamid Baraheri
2009 Push as Hook Waters
2008 10,000 BC as Tic-Tic
2007 Coffee and Allah Executive Producer
2007 Eagle vs Shark Producer
2007 Live Free or Die Hard as Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
2007 Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Himself
2007 Fracture as Detective Flores
2007 Sunshine as Searle
2006 The Fountain as Captain Ariel
2005 River Queen as Wiremu
2004 Spooked as Mort Whitman
2004 Tama Tū Producer
2004 Fracture as Inspector Franklin
2004 Heinous Crime as Pizza Delivery Man
2003 Whale Rider as Porourangi
2003 Runaway Jury as Frank Herrera
2002 Point of Origin as Mike Camello
2002 Collateral Damage as Claudio Perrini
2001 The Majestic as The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
2001 Training Day as Smiley
2001 Blow as Pablo Escobar
2000 Jubilee as Billy Williams
1999 The Insider as Sheikh Fadlallah
1999 Bringing Out the Dead as Cy Coates
1999 Three Kings as Amir Abdullah
1999 Virus as Hiko
1998 Six Days Seven Nights as Kip
1998 Deep Rising as Mamooli
1996 Chicken as Zeke
1994 Hercules in the Underworld as Nessus
1994 Once Were Warriors as Bully
1994 Rapa Nui as Short Ears
1993 Desperate Remedies as Fraser
1993 The Piano as Mana