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Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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…
Known for
- Avatar 5 — Tonowari2031
- Avatar 4 — Tonowari2029
- Last Breath — Andre Jenson (Captain)2025
- Avatar: Fire and Ash — Tonowari2025
- Chief of War — Keoua2025
- Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films — Self - "Tonowari"2025
- In the Fire of War — Wi Toka2024
- Swift Street — Robert2024
- KAOS — Poseidon2024
- Inside Pandora's Box — Self2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis , ( 1968-07-27 ) 27 July 1968 (age 57) , Rotorua , New Zealand
- Education
- Toi Whakaari ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Actor Producer
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Relatives
- Toby Curtis (uncle)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Rotorua
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Cliff Curtis March 2026.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cliff Curtis
- date of birth
- 1968-07-27
- name in native language
- Cliff Curtis
- described at URL
- theglobalstardom.com/cliff-curtis
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- birth name
- Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis
- ethnic group
- Māori
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Encyclopedic overview
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 1968) 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).
Curtis' international film credits include Three Kings, Bringing Out the Dead (both 1999), Blow, Training Day (both 2001), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), Push, Crossing Over (both 2009), Colombiana (2011), Hobbs & Shaw, and Doctor Sleep (both 2019), also portraying James "Mac" Mackreides in The Meg (2018) and Meg 2: The Trench (2023) and Tonowari in the Avatar series (2022–present).
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