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James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. (born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is known for the roles of Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius, Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo, Catch in Angel Eyes and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line.

Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington; the son of Margaret and James Caviezel, a homemaker and chiropractor, respectively. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and sisters Ann, Amy, and Erin, and was raised in a tight-knit Roman Catholic family in Conway (Skagit County), Washington. Caviezel's surname is of Romansh origin; his father is of Slovak (maternal) and Swiss (paternal) descent, while his mother's ancestry is Irish. He attended Mount Vernon High School for two years and then moved to Seattle and lived with family friends in order to play basketball at the Catholic O'Dea High School. The following spring, he transferred from O'Dea to another Catholic school, John F. Kennedy Memorial High in Burien. There he starred on the basketball team and graduated in 1987.

Following high school, Caviezel enrolled at Bellevue Community College where the 6 ft 2 in athlete also played college basketball. A foot injury in his second year, however, put an end to his hopes of a basketball career in the NBA. He transferred to the University of Washington where he turned his focus to acting and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Caviezel is a devout Catholic  and has been a featured public speaker at religious venues since the release of The Passion. On March 19, 2005 he was the main speaker at the first Catholic Men's Conference in Boston. Caviezel stated that he chose to speak at the conference only because he liked Boston Archbishop, Seán Patrick O'Malley. His wife Kerri Browitt Caviezel, also a devout Roman Catholic, is a teacher and an accomplished flautist. The two are active in their Conejo Valley, California parish. Kerri supports a charity for single mothers and also volunteers with their church's Detention Ministry at a camp for incarcerated youth in Malibu, California.

In 2006, Caviezel enrolled in at least one class at University of Notre Dame. He was not enrolled as a full-time degree seeking student.

In 2007, he and his wife adopted Bo, a baby Chinese boy with a brain tumor; the Caviezels have also adopted a second child with a brain tumor, a young girl, from the Guangzhou region of China.

On July 17, 2009 Caviezel was involved in a motorcycle accident about 14 miles southeast of Leavenworth, Washington in which someone threw a bicycle in his path. Suffering cuts and bruises, Caviezel was taken to Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth; Caviezel was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.