David Caruso

David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an US American film and television actor. He is currently known to audiences for his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami.

Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Stepfather Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor.[1] He is of Irish descent[2] and was raised Catholic.[3] Caruso attended elementary and middle school at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, Queens, the same primary school attended by Ray Romano and Pia Zadora. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, NY, graduating in 1974. In 1987, Caruso was called upon to fill in for the leading role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway for 6 months.[citation needed]

His first film appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted, in which he played the part of Henry. Caruso then spent the better part of the next decade in supporting roles on the big screen, appearing in such films as An Officer and a Gentleman, Blue City, Thief of Hearts, and China Girl. Caruso also appeared in 1982's First Blood, the very first Rambo film, as one of the sheriff's deputies, Mitch, who is clearly impressed with the fugitive John Rambo's skills. Caruso is also seen in a few scenes in Twins, as a parking lot attendant, with Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Caruso also appears (with heavy hair dye) as Kit-Kat in "Hudson Hawk" (1991).