• Cliff most often plays intense, serious male roles in his movies.
• Cliff took his chance at breaking the tough guy mold when he played Billy Williams in Jubilee, a movie made in his homeland of New Zealand.
• He began his acting career on the theater stage.
• Cliff graduated from the New Zealand Drama School.
• Cliff was once a rock-n-roll dancer and construction worker.
• If the role Cliff is playing is singing, it is his voice you are hearing. He can not only act but sing too.
• Even though he is Maori, Cliff has been cast multiple times for Arabic roles.

1. Crossing Over (2008)
2. 10,000 B.C. (2008)
3. Sunshine (2007)
4. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
5. Fracture (2007)
6. Traffic: The Mini-Series (2004)
7. Runaway Jury (2003)
8. Whale Rider (2003)
9. Point Of Origin (2003)
10. Collateral Damage (2002)
11. Training Day (2001)
12. Blow (2001)
13. Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
14. Virus (1999)
15. Three Kings (1999)
16. Deep Rising (1998)
17. Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
18. Hercules: Hercules In The Underworld (1994)
19. Once Were Warriors (1994)

See Star Profiles