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

• 2031Avatar 5 — Tonowari
• 2029Avatar 4 — Tonowari
• 2025Avatar: Fire and Ash — Tonowari
• Chief of War — Keoua, Co-Producer
• 2025Last Breath — Andre Jenson (Captain)
• 2024In the Fire of War — Wi Toka
• KAOS — Poseidon
• Swift Street — Robert
• 2023Meg 2: The Trench — Mac
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters — Jason Trissop
• 2023True Spirit — Ben Bryant
• 2022Avatar: The Way of Water — Tonowari
• 2022Murina — Javier
• 2022The Raid — Tāwharau ‘Taffy’, Executive Producer
• INVINCIBLE — Paul (voice)
• 2021Reminiscence — Cyrus Booth
• 2019Doctor Sleep — Billy Freeman
• 2019Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw — Jonah Hobbs
• 2019Herbs: Songs of Freedom — Producer
• 2019Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen — Executive Producer
• 2018The Meg — James 'Mac' Mackreides
• 2016Risen — Yeshua
• Fear the Walking Dead — Travis Manawa
• 2015Last Knights — Lt. Cortez
• Gang Related — Javier Acosta
• 2014The Dark Horse — Genesis, Executive Producer
• 2012A Thousand Words — Dr. Sinja
• 2012Great Expectations — Executive Producer
• Missing — Dax Miller
• Body of Proof — FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
• 2011Colombiana — Emilio
• 2011Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata — Himself, Co-Producer
• 2010Boy — Producer
• 2010The Last Airbender — Fire Lord Ozai
• 2009Crossing Over — Hamid Baraheri
• 2009Push — Hook Waters
• Trauma — Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
• 200810,000 BC — Tic-Tic
• 2007Coffee and Allah — Executive Producer
• 2007Eagle vs Shark — Producer
• 2007Fracture — Detective Flores
• 2007Live Free or Die Hard — Deputy Director Miguel Bowman
• 2007Sunshine — Searle
• 2006The Fountain — Captain Ariel
• 2005River Queen — Wiremu
• 2004Fracture — Inspector Franklin
• 2004Heinous Crime — Pizza Delivery Man
• 2004Spooked — Mort Whitman
• 2004Tama Tū — Producer
• Traffic — Adam Kadyrov
• 2003Runaway Jury — Frank Herrera
• 2003Whale Rider — Porourangi
• 2002Collateral Damage — Claudio Perrini
• 2002Point of Origin — Mike Camello
• 2001Blow — Pablo Escobar
• 2001The Majestic — The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
• 2001Training Day — Smiley
• 2000Jubilee — Billy Williams
• 1999Bringing Out the Dead — Cy Coates
• 1999The Insider — Sheikh Fadlallah
• 1999Three Kings — Amir Abdullah
• 1999Virus — Hiko
• 1998Deep Rising — Mamooli
• 1998Six Days Seven Nights — Kip
• 1996Chicken — Zeke
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys — Nemis
• 1995Overnight — Jim
• 1994Hercules in the Underworld — Nessus
• 1994Once Were Warriors — Bully
• 1994Rapa Nui — Short Ears
• 1993Desperate Remedies — Fraser
• 1993The Piano — Mana

Appearances as themselves (5)

• Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films — Self - "Tonowari"
• 2023A Journey to Sundance — Self
• 2023Inside Pandora's Box — Self
• 2014Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? — Self
• 2007Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth — Himself