[/caption]This is a post in our Celebrity of the Day series.
Curtis Cliff is a native kiwi born in 1968 and he spent most of his childhood learning the fighting styles of his Maori ancestors. He first enrolled in drama school in New Zealand but then transferred to a school in Switzerland. He returned to New Zealand in 1993 and was subsequently cast in The Piano and Desperate Remedies.
Because of his Maori descent Curtis Cliff has been cast as a variety of different ethnicities including Latin Americans and Arabs, as well as Maori. He starred in a few other New Zealand movies as the main star including Once We Were Warriors and Jubilee.
In Hollywood, he is usually cast in supporting roles but has been placed alongside some of world renowned actors. In 1999 he made appearances in Three Kings, The Insider and Bringing out the Dead. In 2001, he was in Blow and Training Day and in 2003 he was in Runaway Jury.
In 2004, he took his love of film into an entirely new direction by forming his own independent film production called Whenua Films, in order to create a home for indigenous storytelling. One of the company’s shorts “Two Cars, One Night” earned an Academy Award nomination in 2005. In 2006 they brought distribution rights to their first feature film Eagles vs Shark.
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