Cliff Curtis
Born 1968 · New Zealand actor
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis is a New Zealand actor and film producer. After working in theatre, he made his film debut in Jane Campion's Oscar-winning film The Piano (1993), followed by a breakout role in the drama Once Were Warriors (1994). He has won four New Zealand Film Awards, Best Actor for Jubilee (2000) and The Dark Horse (2014)—which also earned him the Asia Pacific Screen Award—and Best Supporting Actor for Desperate Remedies (1993) and Whale Rider (2002).
Cliff Curtis, in order
- 1993 Desperate Remedies: acted · directed by Peter Wells
- 1993 The Piano: acted · directed by Jane Campion · critics 91%, audiences 86%
- 1994 Once Were Warriors: acted · directed by Lee Tamahori
- 1994 Rapa-Nui: acted · directed by Kevin Reynolds
- 1994 True Lies: acted · directed by James Cameron · critics 77%, audiences 76% · streaming on Hulu, Philo
- 1996 Chicken: acted · directed by Grant Lahood
- 1998 Deep Rising: acted · directed by Stephen Sommers
- 1998 Six Days Seven Nights: acted · directed by Ivan Reitman · critics 41%, audiences 36% · streaming on Prime Video
- 1999 Bringing Out the Dead: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 74%, audiences 70% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
- 1999 The Insider: acted · directed by Michael Mann · critics 96%, audiences 90%
- 1999 Three Kings: acted · directed by David O. Russell · critics 94%, audiences 77% · streaming on Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)
- 1999 Virus: acted · directed by John Bruno
- 2000 Jubilee: acted · directed by Michael Hurst
- 2001 Blow: acted · directed by Ted Demme · critics 55%, audiences 87%
- 2001 The Majestic: acted · directed by Frank Darabont · critics 42%, audiences 61% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
- 2001 Training Day: acted · directed by Antoine Fuqua · critics 74%, audiences 89% · streaming on Roku Channel, MGM+, Tubi
- 2002 Collateral Damage: acted · directed by Andrew Davis · critics 19%, audiences 27% · streaming on Hoopla, Plex, Tubi
- 2002 Point of Origin: acted · directed by Newton Thomas Sigel
- 2002 Whale Rider: acted · directed by Niki Caro · critics 91%, audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, Philo, AMC+
- 2003 Runaway Jury: acted · directed by Gary Fleder · critics 73%, audiences 75% · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex
- 2004 Spooked: acted · directed by Geoff Murphy
- 2005 River Queen: acted · directed by Vincent Ward
- 2006 The Fountain: acted · directed by Darren Aronofsky
- 2007 Eagle vs Shark: produced · directed by Taika Waititi
- 2007 Fracture: acted · directed by Gregory Hoblit · critics 72%, audiences 74% · streaming on Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi
- 2007 Live Free or Die Hard: acted · directed by Len Wiseman · critics 82%, audiences 86%
- 2007 Sunshine: acted · directed by Danny Boyle · critics 77%, audiences 73% · streaming on Prime Video
- 2008 10,000 BC: acted · directed by Roland Emmerich · critics 9%, audiences 37% · streaming on Netflix
- 2009 Crossing Over: acted · directed by Wayne Kramer · critics 15%, audiences 49% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
- 2009 Push: acted · directed by Paul McGuigan · critics 23%, audiences 42% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome
- 2009 Trauma (TV series): acted
- 2010 Boy: produced · directed by Taika Waititi
- 2010 The Last Airbender: acted · directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- 2011 Colombiana: acted · directed by Olivier Megaton · critics 29%, audiences 67% · streaming on Philo, Starz
- 2012 A Thousand Words: acted · directed by Brian Robbins · critics 0%, audiences 46%
- 2012 Missing (TV series): acted · directed by James Strong and Paul A. Edwards
- 2014 The Dark Horse: acted · directed by James Napier Robertson
- 2015 Fear the Walking Dead (TV series): acted
- 2015 The Last Knights: acted · directed by Kazuaki Kiriya
- 2016 Risen: acted · directed by Kevin Reynolds
- 2018 The Meg: acted · directed by Jon Turteltaub · critics 47%, audiences 44% · streaming on Hulu, HBO Max
- 2019 Hobbs & Shaw: acted · directed by David Leitch
- 2021 Murina: acted · directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
- 2021 Reminiscence: acted · directed by Lisa Joy · critics 37%, audiences 54%
- 2022 Avatar: The Way of Water: acted · directed by James Cameron · critics 76%, audiences 92% · streaming on Disney+
- 2022 Muru: acted · directed by Tearepa Kahi
- 2023 Meg 2: The Trench: acted · directed by Ben Wheatley
- 2023 True Spirit: acted · directed by Sarah Spillane
- 2024 Ka Whawhai Tonu: acted · directed by Michael Jonathan
- 2024 Kaos (TV series): acted
- 2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash: acted · directed by James Cameron · critics 66%, audiences 90% · streaming on Disney+
- 2025 Last Breath: acted · directed by Alex Parkinson
- 2029 Avatar 4: acted · directed by James Cameron