David Caruso Movies and Career Information

David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American film and television actor and producer, best known for his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami. Aside from that the role that gained him initial significant recognition was the role of Det. John Kelly on the initially controversial ABC Crime drama NYPD Blue. Caruso was born in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian) descent and was raised as a Roman Catholic. Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School, in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974. His first film appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted as "Danny". Caruso then spent most of the next decade in film supporting roles, appearing in such films as First Blood, An Officer and a Gentleman, Blue City, Thief of Hearts, and China Girl. Caruso also appeared in Twins and Hudson Hawk (1991). Caruso specifically cites his role as "the cadet who nearly drowned" in Officer and a Gentleman as what got him noticed..In television he had a recurring role