Jim Caviezel
James Patrick Caviezel Jr. ( born September 26, 1968 in Mount Vernon, Washington ) is an American actor and also known as Jim Caviezel.
Life
Caviezel's grandfather comes from Pruastg at Lumbrein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Caviezel grew up in his birthplace at Mount Vernon, Washington. His parents Jim and Maggie Caviezel - both strictly Roman Catholic - attended every Sunday with her five children the Holy Mass. James "Jim" Caviezel senior, is chiropractor in private practice in Mount Vernon. He received his Ph.D. in Illinois, where he met his future wife, Maggie, who was a theater actress in Moline, Illinois at the time and originally came from Ireland. James Caviezel has four siblings: Ann, who is now a mother of three children and lives in Chicago, Amy, who is a mother of two children now and in Washington DC lives, Erin, Chiropractor in Iowa, and Tim, a real estate agent in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Caviezel was enthusiastic about early for religion, but also for sports, especially for basketball. 1984 Caviezel visited the Mount Vernon High School, moved to two years at O'Dea High School and soon attracted to friends of his family. That same spring he went to Burien Kennedy High School in Seattle to play for the local basketball school team and was there as well to Mr. Prettiest Eyes chosen.
In 1987, the left-hander Caviezel enrolled at Bellevue Community College, was later a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and also recorded there in the basketball team of the college. A foot injury ended in the second year his basketball career and the dream to one day play in the American professional basketball league. Since then shifted Caveziel his interest to acting and moved to the University of Washington later. He was also a big fan of the Minnesota Vikings, a club that belongs to the U.S. American football professional league ( NFL). 1990, the year after his cameo role in My Own Private Idaho, he moved to Los Angeles in the big house of a professor at the University of Southern California and worked as a waitress between the college lectures in a beach restaurant.
Caviezel is considered to be very religious and supported multiple candidates in election campaigns of the Republican Party, such as the well-known for his Christian fundamentalist views Rick Santorum. 2006 saw Caviezel quite a stir when he spoke out in a campaign spot against stem cell research and it then made a cryptic Aramaic utterance that was translated as " deceiving the Son of God with a kiss ". This was widely interpreted to mean that Caviezel proponents of stem cell research accuses her research to cheat creation under pretense philanthropic attitude of God.
Film career
In 1990, Caviezel was given his first role as an Italian ticket seller in the independent film My Own Private Idaho, by telling the casting, he was a straight immigrant Italians. Also in the early 1990s took Caviezel part in a casting for the television series Melrose Place, because he thought that this would make him known in Hollywood. The casting director found, however, that he would not quite fit into the series, and gave her agent instructs Caviezel never go back to an audition invite, because he had something "strange" ( strange ) worked on it.
After minor supporting roles as in The Rock and GI Jane, he was in Terrence Malick's war epic The Thin Red Line (1998), surprisingly, the main role, which therefore was particularly noteworthy because several established Hollywood stars in the film took on supporting roles. After this breakthrough, Caviezel has been cast in a variety of well-known Hollywood productions, such as Ang Lee Who rides with the devil, Gregory Hoblit Frequency on the side of Dennis Quaid and 2001 on the recommendation of Jennifer Lopez in Angel Eyes. In 2002, he played Edmond Dantes in the novel adaptation Monte Cristo, for which he has received numerous positive reviews. In 2003, he was seen on the side of Robin Williams in The Final Cut.
In 2004 he took over the role of Jesus of Nazareth in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. Caviezel, an acknowledged admirer of Mel Gibson, said in May 2004 in an interview with the San Diego Union Tribune about this: "Working With Mel is like dancing waltz with a tropical cyclone. He is a great man and also a gifted artist. " This controversial film project and Caviezel's strong identification with the same impacted as a result a negative impact on his career. The previously highly sought after performer was clearly less role offers. Caviezel later claimed that this anticipated in advance, but to have it consciously accepted.
Among notable projects included in the result still Déjà Vu - Race Against Time (2006 ), in which Caviezel held a supporting role, and the fantasy film Outlander (2008), however, made in the USA only a few cinemas in the program and a financial flop was. Between 2009 and 2012 worked Caviezel in TV productions, The Prisoner - The Prisoner with and Person of Interest.