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James Patrick Caviezel, Jr.  /kəˈviːzəl/; (born September 26, 1968), known professionally as Jim Caviezel is an American film and television actor. He played Jesus Christ in the Mel Gibson-produced and directed 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ. He has also played Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, Detective John Sullivan in Frequency, Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo, Catch in Angel Eyes, Carroll Oerstadt in Déjà Vu and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line. He currently stars on the CBS crime thriller Person of Interest as John Reese. Caviezel was born in... MORE

James Patrick Caviezel, Jr.  /kəˈviːzəl/; (born September 26, 1968), known professionally as Jim Caviezel is an American film and television actor. He played Jesus Christ in the Mel Gibson-produced and directed 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ. He has also played Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, Detective John Sullivan in Frequency, Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo, Catch in Angel Eyes, Carroll Oerstadt in Déjà Vu and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line. He currently stars on the CBS crime thriller Person of Interest as John Reese. Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington. His mother, Margaret (née Lavery), is a homemaker, and his father, James Patrick Caviezel, Sr., is a chiropractor. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin, and was raised in a tight-knit Roman Catholic family in Conway, Washington. His surname is of Romansh origin; his father is of Slovak (maternal) and Swiss (paternal) descent, while his mother is of Irish descent. He attended Mount Vernon High School for two years and then moved to Seattle and lived with family friends in order to play basketball at O'Dea High School, a Catholic high school. The LESS