
Highest rated as cast or director
The Piano
1993
Whale Rider
2003
The Dark Horse
2014
Three Kings
1999
Trauma
2009 · 1 Season
Chief of War
2025 · 1 Season
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.
Acted in 64
2030s
- 2031
2020s
- 2029
- 2025
- 2024
Swift Street
Robert · 8 episodes
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
2010s
- 2019
- 2018
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
Gang Related
Javier Acosta · 13 episodes
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
Spooked
Mort Whitman
Fracture
Inspector Franklin
Heinous Crime
Pizza Delivery Man
Traffic
Adam Kadyrov · 3 episodes
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
Jubilee
Billy Williams
1990s
- 1999
- 1998
- 1996
Chicken
Zeke
- 1995
- 1994
Rapa Nui
Short Ears
- 1993
Desperate Remedies
Fraser
Produced 11
2020s
- 2025
- 2022
2010s
- 2019
Herbs: Songs of Freedom
Producer
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Executive Producer
- 2014
- 2012
- 2011
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Co-Producer
- 2010
2000s
- 2007
Coffee and Allah
Executive Producer
Eagle vs Shark
Producer
- 2004
Tama Tū
Producer
Appearances6
2020s
- 2025
- 2023
Inside Pandora's Box
Self
2010s
- 2014
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
Self
- 2011
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Himself
2000s
- 2007
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Himself





