James Caviezel was born and raised in Skagitt County, Washington. The Caviezels were a family of athletes, and James steered initially towards athletics, especially basketball. It wasn’t until an injured foot sidelined him that James began to develop other interests. His first acting gig was an undergraduate stage adaptation of the Frank Sinatra musical Come Blow Your Horn. In the early 1980s he re-located to Los Angeles, working as a waiter and making the rounds of auditions. He found small roles on popular TV shows like Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years. He talked his way into his big screen debut as an airline reservations clerk in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991) by pretending to be a recent Italian immigrant with a thick accent. He continued to get small roles in pictures like Diggstown (1992), Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp (1994), but he also began to be noticed. As “Slov” Slovnik in G.I. Jane (1997) he made his presence felt in several scenes of intense fraternization with co-star Demi Moore.

His breakthrough role, however, was another military assignment, the brooding pacifist Private Witt in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998), holding his own in the presence of co-stars like Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Adrien Brody. His evident ability to mix soulful introspection with physicality and action came to the fore over the next few years in his work in projects like Ang Lee’s Civil War-era “Western” Ride With the Devil (1999), and in Gregory Hoblit’s ingenious time-twist thriller Frequency (2000), in which he played a troubled son hooking up across two decades of time with his long-dead father (Dennis Quaid). In 2001 he starred with Jennifer Lopez in Angel Eyes, directed by Luis Mandoki. He had all the soaring range needed to convincingly play the wrongly convicted Edmond Dantes in Kevin Reynolds’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), and a war hero wrestling with a murder charge in Carl Franklin’s courtroom drama High Crimes (2002), with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.

It could be said that Caviezel’s role in The Passion of The Christ is the ultimate in terms of making simultaneous physical and emotional demands upon a performer. The actor was chosen for the role because he was willing to commit to this unique project whole-heartedly. Prior to shooting, Caviezel spent several months preparing himself physically, spiritually and emotionally for the most demanding role of his career. It was a daily struggle learning Aramaic, the language actually spoken by Jesus, and during production he endured full-body makeup sessions that sometimes dragged on for ten hours. In 2004, James Caviezel will also appear with Robin Williams and Mira Sorvino in Omar Naim’s Final Cut and with Claire Forlani and Jeremy Northam in Rowdy Harrington’s Stroke of Genius.

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  Deja Vu (2006) (pre-production)
Unknown (2006) (post-production)

Rebels (2004) .... Ethan Allen
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Bobby Jones
The Passion of the Christ (2004) .... Jesus
... aka The Passion Recut (International: English title: cut version)
The Final Cut (2004) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Fletcher
... aka The final Cut - Dein Tod ist erst der Anfang (Germany: DVD title)
I Am David (2003) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Johannes
Highwaymen (2003) (as Jim Caviezel) .... James 'Rennie' Cray
High Crimes (2002) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Tom Kubik/Ron Chapman
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Edmond Dantes/Count of Monte Cristo
... aka Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (USA: complete title)
Angel Eyes (2001) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Steven 'Catch' Lambert
Madison (2001) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Jim McCormick
Pay It Forward (2000) .... Jerry
Frequency (2000) (as Jim Caviezel) .... John Sullivan
Resurrection (2000) (V) .... Speaker

Ride with the Devil (1999/I) .... Black John
The Thin Red Line (1998) (as Jim Caviezel) .... Private Witt
... aka Mince ligne rouge, La (Canada: French title)
G.I. Jane (1997) .... 'Slov' Slovnik
The Rock (1996) .... Rear F-18 Pilot
Ed (1996) .... Dizzy Anderson
Children of the Dust (1995) (TV) .... Dexter
... aka A Good Day to Die (USA: video title)
Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Warren Earp
Diggstown (1992) .... Billy Hargrove
... aka Midnight Sting
My Own Private Idaho (1991) .... Airline Clerk