David Stephen Caruso is an American actor and producer. His most prominent roles are his portrayals of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI Miami and as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue. He also appeared in movies such as First Blood, Kiss of Death, Jade and Proof of Life.
David Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and . He is of Irish and Italian descent. His father left when he was two years of age, forcing him to end up fathering myself, as he put it. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974.
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