32 Facts About Jim Caviezel

Jim Caviezel has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin.

Jim Caviezel was raised in a tight-knit Catholic family in Conway, Washington.

Jim Caviezel's father is of Slovak and Swiss descent, while his mother is Irish.

Jim Caviezel earned his Screen Actors Guild card with a minor role in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho.

Jim Caviezel then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.

Jim Caviezel was offered a scholarship to study acting at New York's Juilliard School in 1993, but he turned it down to portray Warren Earp in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp.

Jim Caviezel later appeared in episodes of Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years.

Jim Caviezel played Black John, a Missouri bushwhacker, in Ride with the Devil, an American Civil War film.

Jim Caviezel starred in the mainstream films Pay It Forward, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius.

Jim Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.

Jim Caviezel had leading roles in the 2006 films Unknown and Deja Vu.

Jim Caviezel played Kainan in Outlander and provided the voice of Jesus on the 2007 New Testament audio dramatization The Word of Promise.

Jim Caviezel starred in The Prisoner, a remake of the British science fiction series The Prisoner, in November 2009.

From 2011 to 2016, Jim Caviezel starred in the CBS drama series Person of Interest as John Reese, a former CIA agent who now works for a mysterious billionaire as a vigilante.

Jim Caviezel was nominated for the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actor in 2014 and again in 2016 for his work on Person of Interest.

Jim Caviezel starred in the 2014 football film When the Game Stands Tall as De La Salle High School coach Bob Ladouceur, whose Concord, California Spartans prep team had a 151-game winning streak from 1992 to 2003, an American sporting record.

Jim Caviezel appeared in the 2013 film Escape Plan, playing a warden who maintains order in the world's most secret and secure prison.

In 2017, Jim Caviezel signed on as lead character of CBS's SEAL Team series.

However, Jim Caviezel left the project due to creative differences before production began and was replaced by David Boreanaz.

Jim Caviezel portrayed the Apostle Luke in the film Paul, Apostle of Christ, which opened in theaters on March 23,2018, to mixed reviews.

In January 2018, Jim Caviezel's agent announced that Jim Caviezel had signed on with Mel Gibson to reprise his role as Jesus in The Passion of the Christ sequel, entitled The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection.

In 2018, Jim Caviezel signed on to portray Tim Ballard, a self-styled anti-human-trafficking activist, in the movie Sound of Freedom.

Jim Caviezel starred in the 2020 thriller film Infidel as Doug Rawlins.

In 1996, Jim Caviezel married Kerri Browitt, a high school English teacher.

Out of respect for his wife, Jim Caviezel requested that he wear a shirt and that Jennifer Lopez wear a top during a love scene in the film Angel Eyes, and he refused to strip in a love scene with Ashley Judd in High Crimes.

Jim Caviezel has been a featured public speaker at religious venues since the release of The Passion of the Christ.

In 2006, Jim Caviezel was featured with actress Patricia Heaton and Missouri athletes Kurt Warner and Mike Sweeney in an advertisement opposing Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2, which allowed any form of embryonic stem cell research and therapy in Missouri that is otherwise legal under federal law.

Jim Caviezel began the advertisement by saying, "Le-bar nash be-neshak", a reference to Judas's betrayal of Jesus Christ and a phrase used in the Gospel According to St Luke.

In 2021, Jim Caviezel endorsed some elements of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, during a remote appearance at the "Health and Freedom Conference" in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Jim Caviezel mentioned that Ballard was supposed to be appearing at the conference but was "saving victims of trafficking" who were victims of "adrenochroming", an imaginary practice whose existence is suggested by QAnon adherents.

Jim Caviezel suggested he had seen evidence of children being subjected to the practice.

Jim Caviezel claimed that "the storm is upon us", echoing the belief in a final battle against evil and repeated the battle cry of William Wallace in Braveheart, urging the audience to "[send] Lucifer and his henchmen straight back to hell where they belong".