Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis

Actor (b. 1968)
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The ThumbScore for Cliff Curtis (71.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 33 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Cliff's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

33
Movies
71.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Action
Top Genre

Audiences rate Cliff Curtis’s films higher than 50% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Once Were Warriors (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Deep Rising (Hoopla) · Bringing Out the Dead (Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Tubi) · Last Knights (Philo, Roku Channel, ViX, Plex, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Whale Rider (YouTube, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) and 6 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Zoe Saldaña (3)Jason Statham (3)Sam Worthington (2)Sigourney Weaver (2)Stephen Lang (2)

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). He had television series roles on 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. Curtis is also the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.

Born 1968-07-27 in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand.

On ThumbScore, Cliff Curtis appears in 33 films with an average audience score of 71.6%, most frequently in the Action genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB

Every Cliff Curtis movie, ranked by audience score

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
👍 88%
Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors
1994
👍 88%
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
👍 87%
Training Day
Training Day
2001
👍 87%
Blow
Blow
2001
👍 84%
Colombiana
Colombiana
2011
👍 84%
The Piano
The Piano
1993
👍 83%
Live Free or Die Hard
Live Free or Die Hard
2007
👍 83%
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep
2019
👍 79%
Six Days Seven Nights
Six Days Seven Nights
1998
👍 79%
Deep Rising
Deep Rising
1998
👍 78%
The Meg
The Meg
2018
👍 77%
Risen
Risen
2016
👍 75%
Virus
Virus
1999
👍 75%
Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
👍 74%
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
👍 73%
Last Knights
Last Knights
2015
👍 73%
Whale Rider
Whale Rider
2003
👍 72%
Fracture
Fracture
2007
👍 70%
The Fountain
The Fountain
2006
👍 69%
Crossing Over
Crossing Over
2009
👍 66%
True Spirit
True Spirit
2023
👍 66%
Sunshine
Sunshine
2007
👍 65%
Meg 2: The Trench
Meg 2: The Trench
2023
👍 64%
Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage
2002
👍 64%
Three Kings
Three Kings
1999
👍 63%
10,000 BC
10,000 BC
2008
👍 63%
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words
2012
👍 62%
Hercules in the Underworld
Hercules in the Underworld
1994
👍 62%
Push
Push
2009
👍 58%
Reminiscence
Reminiscence
2021
👍 52%
Last Breath
Last Breath
2025
👍 51%
The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender
2010
👍 49%