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Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand Māori (Te Arawa and Ngāti Hauiti) actor and producer.

One of Hollywood’s go-to-guys for ethnic roles, he's best known for Once Were Warriors, Three Kings, and Training Day.

He is married and has three children.


Film Roles

Television Roles

Producer

Tropes in his work include:

  • Fake American: He's played lots of Americans in his career.
  • Plays Great Ethnics: He's played a huge variety of ethnicities, from Latin American to Indian, but few Māori like himself except for a couple times. Curtis has embraced this, saying it gave him many opportunities in his acting.

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