Biography of Cliff Curtis & Net Worth

Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 1968) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Blow (2001), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Sunshine (2007), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Best Performance by an Actor award at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Curtis had television series roles on NBC’s Trauma and ABC’s Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, Curtis portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.^[1]

Though Curtis is ethnically Māori, his many character roles have included a range of ethnicities, such as Mestizo, Samoan, Indian, Arab, and Anglo-Saxon. He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.

Early life

Curtis was born in Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. He is one of eight children, the son of an amateur dancer. Curtis is of Māori descent; his tribal affiliations are Te Arawa^[3] and Ngāti Hauiti.

As a boy, he studied mau rākau, a traditional Māori form of taiaha fighting, with Māori elder Mita Mohi on Mokoia Island,^[4] which nurtured his abilities as a performer in kapa haka. Curtis later performed as a breakdancer and competitively in rock ‘n’ roll dance competitions. He received his secondary education at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua. Curtis graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1989 with a Diploma in Acting.

Net Worth

Cliff Curtis’s net worth is estimated to be $3 Million, according to the list of richest New Zealand Hollywood Actors.