About David Caruso
David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue (1993–1994) and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002–2012). Caruso appeared in the feature films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), First Blood (1982, the first film in the Rambo franchise), Twins (1988), King of New York (1990),Hudson Hawk (1991), Kiss of Death (1995), and Proof of Life (2000). == Early life == David Stephen Caruso was born on January 7, 1956, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian & Neapolitan) descent. Charles left the family when David was two years old, resulting in him "end[ing] up fathering myself." Raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills, then Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974. Caruso worked as a cinema usher, where he claimed to have seen up to 80 movies a week. Caruso said that he and his co-workers would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were at the back of the theater. In this job, Caruso found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. He said: "The ethics of certain actors certainly had a power over me. These guys taught me how to be what I consider the real scum of the earth." == Career == === 1980s === Caruso's first movie appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted as Danny.
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