Cliff Curtis  (born 27 July 1968) is a New Zealand actor who has had major roles in film, including The Piano, Whale Rider, and Blow, and most recently has appeared in NBC’s television series Trauma. He is also co-owner of independent film production company Whenua Films. Curtis, ethnically MÄori, has on film portrayed a range of ethnicities, including Latin American and Arab characters. He has appeared as a character actor in many Hollywood films, while in New Zealand he is usually the main star.
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Cliff Curtis Biography / Wiki
| Name | Cliff Curtis |
| Also Know | Clifford Vivian Devon “Cliff” Curtis, Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis, Κλιφ ΚÎÏτις |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand |
| Date of Birth | 1968-07-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday |
Cliff Curtis Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Dark Horse | Genesis | 2014-07-17 | 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… |
| Spooked | Mort Whitman | 2004-10-31 | Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, … |
| Jubilee | Billy Williams | 2000-04-13 | 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… |
| Saving Grace – Te Whakarauora Tangata | Himself | 2011-10-23 | 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… |
| Muru | Community Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tawharau | 2022-10-13 | Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tawharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between his badge and his peo… |
| Colombiana | Emilio | 2011-07-27 | 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 hitm… |
| 10,000 BC | Tic-Tic | 2008-02-22 | A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe…. |
| River Queen | Wiremu | 2005-09-12 | 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… |
| A Thousand Words | Dr. Sinja | 2012-03-07 | 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… |
| Risen | Yeshua | 2016-02-18 | 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… |
| Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Himself | 2007-05-15 | A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Fountain’…. |
| Meg 2: The Trench | James “Mac” Mackreides | 2023-08-02 | Plot unknown. Sequel to the 2018 film ‘The Meg’…. |
| Heinous Crime | 2004-08-14 | Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004…. | |
| Whale Rider | Porourangi | 2003-01-30 | 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… |
| Live Free or Die Hard | Bowman | 2007-06-20 | 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 … |
| Collateral Damage | Claudio Perrini | 2002-02-06 | 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… |
| Desperate Remedies | Fraser | 1993-11-26 | 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 … |
| Point of Origin | Mike Camello | 2002-06-20 | An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California…. |
| Chicken | Zeke | 1996-04-22 | 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… |
| The Meg | ‘Mac’ | 2018-08-09 | 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… |
| Doctor Sleep | Billy Freeman | 2019-10-30 | Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace… |
| Reminiscence | Cyrus Booth | 2021-08-19 | 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… |
| Murina | Javier | 2022-04-08 | A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea…. |
| The Piano | Mana | 1993-05-19 | After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New … |
| Sunshine | Searle | 2007-04-05 | 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 … |
| Three Kings | Amir Abdullah | 1999-04-21 | 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… |
| Hercules in the Underworld | Nessus | 1994-11-07 | 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… |
| Push | Hook | 2009-02-04 | After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare … |
| Crossing Over | Hamid Baraheri | 2009-02-10 | 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… |
| Training Day | Smiley | 2001-10-05 | 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…. |
| Blow | Pablo Escobar | 2001-04-04 | 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…. |
| Fracture | Detective Flores | 2007-04-19 | 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… |
| Six Days Seven Nights | Kip | 1998-06-12 | When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up strande… |
| Virus | Hiko | 1999-01-14 | 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… |
| Last Knights | Lt. Cortez | 2015-04-03 | 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 … |
| Avatar: The Way of Water | Tonowari | 2022-12-14 | 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… |
| The Fountain | Captain Ariel | 2006-11-22 | Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence… |
| Once Were Warriors | Bully | 1994-09-02 | 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 du… |
| Bringing Out the Dead | Cy Coates | 1999-10-22 | Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything … |
| The Last Airbender | Fire Lord Ozai | 2010-06-30 | 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 … |
| Deep Rising | Mamooli | 1998-01-30 | 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… |
| Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Jonah Hobbs | 2019-08-01 | 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… |
| Runaway Jury | Frank Herrera | 2003-01-16 | A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer…. |
| Fracture | Inspector Franklin | 2004-09-04 | 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… |
| Avatar 4 | Tonowari | 2026-12-16 | … |
| Avatar 5 | Tonowari | 2028-12-20 | … |
| Rapa Nui | Short Ears | 1994-09-09 | 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 … |
| Avatar 3 | Tonowari | 2024-12-18 | … |
| The Insider | Sheikh Fadlallah | 1999-10-28 | Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey … |
| The Majestic | The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid | 2001-12-21 | 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… |
Cliff Curtis Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Eagle vs Shark | Producer | 2007-07-15 | Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After… |
| Tama TÅ« | Producer | 2004-01-01 | Six MÄori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu … |
| Boy | Producer | 2010-02-14 | Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee crimin… |
| Great Expectations | Executive Producer | 2012-11-30 | Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip’s ‘Uncle Pumblechook’ to find a bo… |
| Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Executive Producer | 2019-01-28 | A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves… |
| Saving Grace – Te Whakarauora Tangata | Co-Producer | 2011-10-23 | 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… |
| The Dark Horse | Executive Producer | 2014-07-17 | 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… |
| Coffee and Allah | Executive Producer | 2007-09-01 | When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah…. |
| Muru | Executive Producer | 2022-10-13 | Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tawharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between his badge and his peo… |
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