There are a million reasons why Cliff Curtis might be familiar to you (actually, 60 -- that's the number of roles on his Internet Movie Database resume). What's more, he'll be familiar to you no matter what kind of movie or show you like.

Are you an action fan? He was in 2007's "Live Free or Die Hard" as FBI Deputy Director Miguel Bowman, and appeared in the artsy actioner "Colombiana" in 2011.

If you're more a fan of dark, prestige drama, he played a fictional, small-time crime boss in the critically acclaimed 2001 film "Training Day," as well as real-life criminal giant Pablo Escobar in "Blow" (also 2001).

He has a lighter side, too. He appeared in the 2012 Eddie Murphy comedy "A Thousand Words," and the oddball Harrison Ford comedy (yep, you heard that right) "Six Days Seven Nights" back in 1998.

He's done other TV shows as well, but none as successful as "Fear the Walking Dead." He previously appeared in the 2014 crime show "Gang Related," the 2012 mystery-thriller "Missing," and the 2009-2010 medical drama "Trauma," none of which made it to a second season.

Part of the reason for Curtis's diverse resume is the fact that Hollywood is willing to cast him as a variety of ethnicities. Most of his big roles have been playing Latino characters, but he's played Arabic ones as well in such films as "Three Kings" and "The Insider" (both from 1999), and a Maori (indigenous New Zealander) in 2002's "Whale Rider." This last one is that which reflects his own roots, having been born in Rotorua, New Zealand, in 1968.

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