David Caruso

David Stephen Caruso[1] (born January 7, 1956)[2] is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue (1993–94) and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002–2012). He appears in the feature films An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood (both 1982), Twins (1988), Kiss of Death (1995) and Proof of Life (2000).

David Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York,[1] the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor.[3] He is of Irish and Italian descent.[4] His father left the family when David was two years old, resulting in him to “end up fathering myself”. Raised as a Catholic,[5] Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills, [6] then Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974