James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. (pronounced /kəˈviːzəl/; born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is perhaps best known for playing Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and as well the part of Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius and as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line.
Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son o...
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James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. (pronounced /kəˈviːzəl/; born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is perhaps best known for playing Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and as well the part of Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius and as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line.
Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son of Margaret, a housewife, and James Patrick Caviezel, Sr., a chiropractor. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and sisters Ann, Amy, and Erin, and was raised in a tight-knit Roman Catholic family in Conway (Skagit County), Washington. Caviezel's surname is of Romansh origin; his father is of Slovak (maternal) and Swiss (paternal) descent, while his mother's ancestry is Irish. 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 the Catholic O'Dea High School....
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