James Patrick Caviezel (/kəˈviË zÉ™l/; born September 26, 1968) is
an American actor. Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The
Passion of the Christ (2004) and starred as John Reese on the CBS
science-fiction crime drama series Person of Interest
(2011â€"2016).Caviezel's other notable roles include Private Witt in
The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan in Frequency (2000),
and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).Caviezel was
born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son of Margaret (née Lavery), a
former stage actress and homemaker, and James Caviezel, a
chiropractor. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters,
Ann, Amy, and Erin. He was raised in a tightly knit Catholic family in
Conway, Washington. His surname is Romansh. His father is of Slovak
and Swiss descent, while his mother is Irish.Caviezel began acting in
plays in Seattle. He earned his Screen Actors Guild card with a minor
role in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. He then moved to Los
Angeles to pursue a career in acting. When he decided to move, "people
thought I was out of my mind," he said. He was offered a scholarship
to study acting at New York's Juilliard School in 1993, but he turned
it down to portray Warren Earp in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp. He later
appeared in episodes of Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years. After
appearing in G.I. Jane (1997), he had a breakthrough performance in
the 1998 Terrence Malick-directed World War II film The Thin Red Line.
He played Black John, a Missouri bushwhacker, in Ride with the Devil
(1999), an American Civil War film.
an American actor. Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The
Passion of the Christ (2004) and starred as John Reese on the CBS
science-fiction crime drama series Person of Interest
(2011â€"2016).Caviezel's other notable roles include Private Witt in
The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan in Frequency (2000),
and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).Caviezel was
born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son of Margaret (née Lavery), a
former stage actress and homemaker, and James Caviezel, a
chiropractor. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters,
Ann, Amy, and Erin. He was raised in a tightly knit Catholic family in
Conway, Washington. His surname is Romansh. His father is of Slovak
and Swiss descent, while his mother is Irish.Caviezel began acting in
plays in Seattle. He earned his Screen Actors Guild card with a minor
role in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. He then moved to Los
Angeles to pursue a career in acting. When he decided to move, "people
thought I was out of my mind," he said. He was offered a scholarship
to study acting at New York's Juilliard School in 1993, but he turned
it down to portray Warren Earp in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp. He later
appeared in episodes of Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years. After
appearing in G.I. Jane (1997), he had a breakthrough performance in
the 1998 Terrence Malick-directed World War II film The Thin Red Line.
He played Black John, a Missouri bushwhacker, in Ride with the Devil
(1999), an American Civil War film.
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