Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand on July 27th, 1968 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 55, Cliff Curtis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 1968) is a New Zealand actor.
Several of his film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Blow (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Live Free or Die Hard (2006), and The Dark Horse (2014), for which he received the Best Performance by an Actor award at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Curtis appeared on NBC's Trauma and ABC'sBody of Proof and Missing, as well as in television series.
Curtis portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead from 2015 to 2017.
Curtis is co-owner of Whenua Films, a small New Zealand production company.
Early life
Curtis was born in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, on July 27, 1968. He is one of eight children, the son of an amateur dancer. Curtis is of Mori descent; his tribal links are Te Arawa and Ng'ti Hauiti.
As a youth, he learned mau rkau, a traditional Mori version of taiaha conflict, with Mori elder Mita Mohi on Mokoia Island, which developed his skills as a performer in kapa haka. Curtis's career began as a breakdancer and in rock 'n' roll dance championships. He completed his secondary education at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua. Curtis earned a Diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1989.
Personal life
He married in late 2009 in a private ceremony at his house and has four children. He is Roman Catholic.
"I'm a huge advantage, I love being ethnic, and I love the color of my skin," actor Terry Jones said when asked about being an "all-purpose ethnic" actor. The company has limitations, that's a fact, but I've been given such great opportunities."
Career
Curtis began performing in amateur productions of musicals Fiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha with the Kapiti Players and Mantis Cooperative Theatre Company before attending the New Zealand Drama School and Teatro Dimitri Scoula in Switzerland. He appeared at a number of New Zealand theatre companies, including Downstage, Mercury Theatre, Bats Theatre, and Centre Point. His stage appearances include: Happy End, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, The Cherry Orchard, Porgy and Bess, Weeds, Serious Money, and The End of the Golden Weather.
His first film role was in the Oscar-nominated Jane Campion film The Piano, which was a small part. He continued to attract attention in Once Were Warriors, one of New Zealand's most popular and quoted lines, as well as being a fan of the "Kiwiana" trend. In the short film Kahu & Maia, a contemporary retelling of a Ng'ti Kahungunu and Ng'ti Rongomaiwahine legend, he played Kahu. In the melodrama Desperate Remedies, he played a seducer. In 2000, Curtis appeared in Jubilee as Billy Williams, before playing father to the lead role in the international hit Whale Rider.
Curtis founded independent film production firm Whenua Films in 2004 with producer Ainsley Gardiner. The company's aim is to promote the growth of the New Zealand indigenous filmmaking scene as well as local short filmmakers. The New Zealand Film Commission had He and Gardiner commissioned him to oversee the growth and production of films for the Short Film Fund in 2005–06. Several shorts have been produced under the new company banner, including Two Cars, One Night, which received an Academy Award nomination in 2005, and Hawaikii by director Mike Jonathan in 2006. Both short films were distributed at numerous of the best international film festivals like the Berlinale.
Miramax Films acquired the rights to relationship comedy Eagle vs. Shark, Taika Waititi's first feature film, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Boy, Waititi's sequel to Whenua Films, went on to become the highest grossing New Zealand film ever released.
Curtis appeared in The Dark Horse in 2014, which the National Radio review rated as "one of the best New Zealand films ever made"? The New Zealand Herald lauded him for his "wow" as a true Gisborne speed chess player and mentor Genesis Potini, who died in 2011. Curtis ate chess and put on weight for the position.
Curtis has appeared in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Three Kings (1999), and Burning (2001) with Johnny Depp. Fire Lord Ozai was the main villain in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (2010). In the film Risen (2016), Curtis played Lt. Cortez in the films Last Knights (2015) and Jesus Christ.
Reuben "Rabbit" Palchuck, a daredevil flight medic on NBC's "Trauma," played Reuben "Rabbit" Palchuck. Curtis was portrayed as Travis Manawa, AMC TV series Fear the Walking Dead's leading male role.
Curtis was cast as Tonowari in 2017 and appears in four sequels to Avatar, including Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar 3.
In Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw's, Jonah Hobbs, the brother of Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) was in the role of Samoan.