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Cliff Curtis

1968 - Today

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Cliff Curtis (born 1968 or 1969) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Blow (2001), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), Push, Crossing Over (both 2009), Colombiana (2011), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, and Doctor Sleep (2019), also portraying James "Mac" Mackreides in The Meg (2018) and Meg 2: The Trench (2023) and Tonowari in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar 3 (2025). Curtis had television series roles on NBC's Trauma and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cliff Curtis has received more than 7,559,509 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Cliff Curtis is the 2,475th most popular actor (down from 2,322nd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 26th in 2019) and the 9th most popular New Zealander Actor.

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  • 7.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cliff Curtis ranks 2,475 out of 9,996Before him are Sergio Castellitto, Anthony Franciosa, Bruce McGill, Tom Welling, Jack Lord, and Natalie Dormer. After him are Bergüzar Korel, Patrick Troughton, Bai Ling, Liselotte Pulver, Jeffrey Jones, and Glynis Johns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Cliff Curtis ranks 86Before him are Scott Morrison, Robert Jarni, Aleksandr Mostovoi, Robert Rodriguez, Timothy Olyphant, and Benjamin List. After him are Lila Downs, Juan Orlando Hernández, Margrethe Vestager, Emma Wiklund, Fabrizio Ravanelli, and Michael Weatherly.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Cliff Curtis ranks 32 out of 248Before him are Ngaio Marsh (1895), Graham McRae (1940), Rob Hall (1961), Richard Curtis (1956), Andrew Niccol (1964), and Janet Frame (1924). After him are Jacinda Ardern (1980), Taika Waititi (1975), Roy Kerr (1934), William Phillips (1914), Helen Clark (1950), and Gary Thain (1948).

Among ACTORS In New Zealand

Among actors born in New Zealand, Cliff Curtis ranks 9Before him are Bruce Spence (1945), Karl Urban (1972), Alan Dale (1947), Temuera Morrison (1960), Manu Bennett (1969), and Marton Csokas (1966). After him are Taika Waititi (1975), Clive Revill (1930), Kevin Smith (1963), Martin Henderson (1974), Melanie Lynskey (1977), and Terence Bayler (1930).

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