Cliff Curtis

Biography:

Actor and film producer Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis was born in New Zealand on July 27, 1968. He began his film career in the theater before landing a breakthrough part in the movie Once Were Warriors (1994) and Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning The Piano (1993). He has won four New Zealand Film Awards, Best Supporting Actor for Desperate Remedies (1993) and Whale Rider (2002), and Best Actor for Jubilee (2000) and The Dark Horse (2014), for which he also received the Asia Pacific Screen Award.

In addition to playing James “Mac” Mackreides in The Meg (2018) and Meg 2: The Trench (2023) and Tonowari in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), Curtis has international film credits that 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), and Doctor Sleep (2019).