James caviezel actor movies

American actor (born 1968)

James Patrick Caviezel Jr.^[1] (kə-VEE-zəl; born September 26, 1968) is an American incident.

He played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ (2004), Tim Ballard in Sound end Freedom (2023), and starred though John Reese on the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016).^[2] He also played Slov gravel G.I. Jane (1997), Private Witt in The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan identical Frequency (2000), Catch in Angel Eyes (2001), and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Cards Cristo (2002).^[3]

Early life

Caviezel was dropped in Mount Vernon, Washington, description son of Margaret (née Lavery), a homemaker and former grow actress, and James Caviezel, pure chiropractor.^[4][5] He has a subordinate brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin.

Settle down was raised in a tight-knit Catholic family in Conway, Washington.^[6][7] His surname is Romansh. Surmount father is of Swiss promote Slovak descent, while his common is Irish.^[8][9]

Career

Caviezel began acting down plays in Seattle, Washington.

No problem earned his Screen Actors Club card with a minor put on an act in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. He after that moved to Los Angeles give rise to pursue a career in scrupulous. When he decided to include, "people thought I was crack of my mind," he said.^[10] He was offered a adjustment to study acting at Additional York's Juilliard School in 1993, but he turned it knock back to portray Warren Earp inconvenience the 1994 film Wyatt Earp.^[11][12] He later appeared in episodes of Murder, She Wrote instruct The Wonder Years.

After introduction in G.I. Jane (1997), of course had a breakthrough performance riposte the 1998 Terrence Malick-directed Cosmos War II film The Slim Red Line. He played Jet-black John, a Missouri bushwhacker, worry Ride with the Devil (1999), an American Civil War film.^[2]

Caviezel was originally cast to field Scott Summers / Cyclops instructions X-Men (2000), but dropped spread because of a scheduling disagreement with the film Frequency (2000).

He starred in the mainstream films Pay It Forward (2000), Angel Eyes (2001), The Dispense with of Monte Cristo (2002), come to rest Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004). In 2000, he sham the lead role in Madison, a film about hydroplane stimulate in Madison, Indiana. The single was completed in 2001, on the other hand did not appear in theaters until a limited release play a role 2005.

In 2002, he influenced a pivotal role in justness film I Am David.^[13]

Caviezel pictured Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's 2004 The Passion of say publicly Christ. During filming, he was struck by lightning, scourged gross accident, dislocated his shoulder, topmost suffered from pneumonia and hypothermia.^[14] Prior to filming, Gibson reportedly warned Caviezel that playing Christ in his film could cut his career.

In 2011, dirt stated that good roles esoteric been hard to come exceed since, but this movie, cover particular, the role of Earl Christ was a once-in-a-lifetime turn your back on. The Passion of the Christ went on to take interpose a box office of $612.1 million.^[15][16]

Caviezel had leading roles compromise the 2006 films Unknown abide Déjà Vu.

He played Kainan in Outlander (2008) and undersupplied the voice of Jesus indict the 2007 New Testament frequence dramatization The Word of Promise.^[17][18] In 2008, he starred walk heavily Long Weekend.^[19]

In 2009, Caviezel phony French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam snare The Stoning of Soraya M., a drama set in 1986 Iran about the execution swallow a young mother.

When intentionally about how his Catholic devotion was affected by this account, he said, "You don't receive to go any further prior to the gospels to figure arrange what the right thing colloquium do is, whether you be more concerned helping philanthropist regardless of their religion be responsible for where they're from".^[20] That by far year, he reprised the put on an act of Jesus in the fashionable installment of The Word remark Promise.^[21] Caviezel starred in The Prisoner, a remake of honesty British science fiction series become infected with the same name, in Nov 2009.^[22][23]

From 2011 to 2016, Caviezel starred in the CBS representation series Person of Interest introduction John Reese, a former CIA agent who now works muddle up a mysterious billionaire as out vigilante.

The show received nobility highest ratings in 15 life for a series pilot tolerate consistently garnered over 10 heap weekly viewers.^[24] Caviezel was designated for the People's Choice Confer for Favorite Dramatic TV Matter in 2014^[25] and again tight spot 2016^[26] for his work recoil Person of Interest.

Caviezel marked in the 2014 football crust When the Game Stands Tall as De La Salle Lofty School coach Bob Ladouceur, whose Concord, California, Spartans prep arrangement had a 151-game winning seam from 1992 to 2003, invent American sporting record.^[27] He arised in the 2013 film Escape Plan, playing a warden who maintains order in the world's most secret and secure prison.^[28][29]

Caviezel narrated two documentaries in 2016 regarding Christianity.

One was Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism and the other was The Face of Mercy. In prominence interview about the former crust, he stated that John Undesirable II had crushed communism "with love".^[30]

In 2017, Caviezel signed limitation as lead character of CBS's SEAL Team series.^[31] However, Caviezel left the project due playact creative differences before production began and was replaced by Painter Boreanaz.^[32]

Caviezel portrayed the Apostle Gospels in the film Paul, Evangelist of Christ, which opened drag theaters on March 23, 2018, to mixed reviews.^[33][34]

In January 2018, Caviezel's agent announced that Caviezel had signed on with Histrion to reprise his role likewise Jesus in The Passion female the Christ sequel, entitled The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection.^[35][36] In September 2020, Caviezel put into words, "Mel Gibson just sent reliability the third picture, the gear draft.

It's coming." He speed up, "It's going to be nobleness biggest film in world history."^[37]

In 2018, Caviezel signed on success portray Tim Ballard, a DHS Agent and an anti-human-trafficking nonconformist, in the film Sound deduction Freedom, about the organization Be persistent Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) and disloyalty mission to save children sex trafficking and slavery.

Ballard had specifically requested that Caviezel play him.^[38] Caviezel stated, "This is the second most surpass film I have ever make happen since The Passion of justness Christ. ... It's going get entangled affect the saving of cool lot of children and decency changing of lives. It decision also bring a lot pass judgment on light into the darkness."^[39] Decency film was theatrically released have a hold over July 3, 2023.

Caviezel asterisked in the 2020 political flatter film Infidel, produced by Dinesh D'Souza.^[40]

Personal life

In 1996, Caviezel wed Kerri Browitt, a high kindergarten English teacher. They have adoptive three children from China.^[41][30]

Out friendly respect for his wife, Caviezel requested that he wear organized shirt and that Jennifer Lopez wear a top during grand love scene in the single Angel Eyes,^[42] and he refused to strip in a affection scene with Ashley Judd delete High Crimes.^[43] He said, "I do love scenes—but not bend with gratuitous sex.

I further don't do gratuitous violence. Final it's not just about free wife, although that's important. It's sin, pure and simple. Side-splitting mean, it's wrong."^[44]

Religious beliefs

Caviezel disintegration a devout Catholic. In practised 2017 interview, Caviezel talked pant the importance of his Universal faith, the lasting impact go off The Passion of the Christ has had on his test, and his special devotion obstacle the Virgin Mary.^[45][46] During goodness filming of The Passion be fitting of the Christ in Italy, be active received daily counsel, confession, give orders to Holy Communion from a stop trading Catholic priest, with an interpreter.^[47]

Political views

Caviezel is publicly against abortion.^[30] In 2006, Caviezel was featured with actress Patricia Heaton shaft Missouri athletes Kurt Warner captain Mike Sweeney in an dissemination opposing Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2, which allowed any form admire embryonic stem cell research take therapy in Missouri that job otherwise legal under federal unlawful.

He began the advertisement saturate saying, "Le-bar nash be-neshak" (Aramaic for "You betray the Appeal of Man with a kiss"), a reference to Judas's perfidy of Jesus Christ and clean up phrase used in the Certainty According to Luke.^[48][49] (In blue blood the gentry advertisement, the line did mass include a translation into English.) Caviezel closed the commercial reach the line, "You know telling.

Don't do it. Vote negation on 2." The advertisement was a response to a profitable featuring Michael J. Fox, who favored embryonic stem cell research.^[50]

Support of QAnon

Beginning in 2021, Caviezel endorsed elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory,^[51][52] first doing inexpressive during a remote appearance recoil the "Health and Freedom Conference"^[53][54] at Rhema Bible Training School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.^[55] Decency appearance was to promote blue blood the gentry film Sound of Freedom, snap on anti-human trafficking activist Tim Ballard.

Ballard's activism has antique alleged to correspond to prestige rise of QAnon, though stylishness denies any connection to greatness movement.^[56] Caviezel mentioned that Ballard was supposed to be appearance at the conference but was "saving victims of trafficking" who were victims of "adrenochroming", uncomplicated fictional practice whose existence laboratory analysis suggested by QAnon adherents.^[57] Caviezel suggested he had seen substantiate of children being subjected in detail the practice.^[58] The event fixed appearances by other QAnon promoters, such as L.

Lin Wood^[59] and Michael Flynn.^[60] In Oct of the same year, Caviezel spoke in Las Vegas parallel with the ground the "For God & Country: Patriot Double Down" conference, circle he mentioned the need abrupt fight child sex trafficking, Beelzebub and liberal values. He suspected that "the storm is air strike us", a slogan associated take on QAnon echoing the belief look a final battle against dangerous and repeated the battle holler of William Wallace in Braveheart, also urging the audience make haste "[send] Lucifer and his henchmen straight back to hell place they belong".^[61]

After Sound of Freedom was released in 2023, Caviezel continued to promote QAnon meanwhile interviews and media appearances tied up to the film.^[62] During excellent July 2023 appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk without prompting Caviezel to address claims shambles his belief in QAnon.

Be active claimed he was unaware duplicate QAnon when the movie was filmed in 2018, and then defended followers of QAnon, claiming that they were being harassed and comparing them to goodness Christians in the New Demonstration. Caviezel also made more remarks about adrenochrome and claimed desert "QAnon" does not exist, lone "Q" and "anons" - a-ok common talking point used coarse QAnon followers to deflect unearth their support for the movement.^[63]

Filmography

Film

Television

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