Jim Caviezel is called James Patrick Caviezel and was born in 1968. He is an actor born in American and he is known to play Jesus Christ in The Passion of The Christ in 2004. Other roles that he played include Bobby Jones in the movie Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius. He was the detective John Sullivan in the movie Frequency while he played as Edmond Dantes in the movie The Count of Monte Cristo. Other movies are Déjà vu, Angel Eyes and The Thin Red Line. In 2011, he started to play at CBS Crime drama Person of Interest in the role of John Reese.
Jim Caviezel was born in Washington and he is a son of a housewife and a former stage actress Margaret. His father, James Caviezel is a chiropractor. He has a brother Timothy with three sisters, Erin, Amy and Ann. He was raised in a Catholic family in Washington and his surname came from Romansh. His father was from Swiss descent and Slovak and the mother has origin in Ireland. His father went to UCLA and was playing basketball under John Wooden and this is why all Caviezel play Basketball.
He is a husband to a flautist and an English Teacher, Kerri Browitt and they met on a blind date. Their marriage took place in 1996 after 3 years of dating. They adopted three children of Chinese origins. They are Catholics.
When Jim Caviezel was being growing up, he was known to be intense. He has two interest and these were religion and sports. He was gifted in the basketball court and he dreamed that one day he will play in NBA. He become a Christian when it was too early and the he attended the church on regular basis with family members.
He attended Mount Vernon High School, O’ Dea High School and after two years, he went to Burien Kennedy High school in Washington. He played the basketball the school and graduated from 1987.
He joined Bellevue Community College and he played in the Basketball team there. He stopped playing basketball when he suffered a foot injury and instead focused on acting. In 1990, he went to auditions of My Own Private Idaho film and he got a small role in playing an airline clerk who was a foreign. He got the role because he said that he was an immigrant from Italy.
He went to Los Angeles and between the auditions; he was working as a waiter. He played small roles in the Wyatt Earp and Diggstown. He was a guest star in Murder, She wrote and the Wonder Years. For years, he played in small roles and was thinking to quit but he got a role in The Thin Red Line. Afterwards he got the roles that made him able to establish himself as a versatile actor and a leading man. Because of her religious belief, he does not perform love scenes with her on-screen wives.
Jim Caviezel’s net worth is 25 million dollars. In addition of being a devout catholic, he appears also in many ads where he opposes the stern-cell research.
| Birth Date: | 26 Sep, 1968 |
| Age: | 51 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Film actor Basketball player Television actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Mount Vernon |
| Education: | University of Washington University of Notre Dame |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American actor |
| Net Worth 2021: | 25 million |
