CliffCurtis
- Actor
- Producer
Cliff Curtis alternates a busy diet of acting in the United States (where he's forged a reputation as the actor to call on, for roles of varied ethnicity) with smaller scale New Zealand projects — including co-producing Taika Waititi smash Boy. His CV of Kiwi classics includes playing Pai's father in Whale Rider, Uncle Bully on Once Were Warriors, and bipolar chess champion Genesis Potini in The Dark Horse.
Screenography
Biography
Cliff Curtis has featured in a string of local classics — Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, The Dark Horse — while simultaneously carving a career as a sought-after Hollywood character actor, on everything from Three Kings to Fear the Walking Dead. Along the way he has worked with acclaimed directors like Martin Scorsese and Danny Boyle, and produced films (Boy, Herbs - Songs of Freedom) back home in New Zealand.
Awards
2015 Seattle International Film Festival (United States)
Best Actor: for The Dark Horse
2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Actor: for The Dark Horse
“I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster … I don’t want to make a fool of that cultural heritage. I represent them as I would represent my own.”
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