David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American film and television actor and producer. He is currently known to audiences for his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami.
Early Life
Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York to Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian descent and was raised Catholic.Caruso attended elementary and middle school at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, Queens, the same primary school attended by Ray Romano and Pia Zadora. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, N.Y., graduating in 1974. In 1987, Caruso was called upon to fill in for the leading role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway for 6 months.
Personal life
Caruso is Founder of DavidCarusoTelevision.tv and LexiconDigital.tv, as well as co-owner of Steam, a clothing store in South Miami . He has a daughter, Greta (born June 1, 1984), with his second wife, Rachel Ticotin. In 1994, (according to court record) ex-girlfriend Paris Papiro filed a palimony suit. Caruso paid an undisclosed sum in early 1995.He and former girlfriend Liza Marquez have two children together: a son, Marquez Anthony (born September 15, 2005), and daughter, Paloma Raquel (born October 16, 2007). He lives in Los Angeles and Miami with his girlfriend, aspiring actress Amina Tyrone.
In March 2009 an Austrian woman was placed in custody in Tyrol, Austria on charges of stalking Caruso; she had twice failed to appear in court to answer the charges before fled to Mexico; following her deportation from Mexico, Austrian officials took her into custody to await trial on the stalking charges.
A student residence hall at Southern Maine Community College was built with donations by Mr. Caruso, and is named Caruso Hall in his honor and a plaque of him in his characteristic stance is hanging in the entrance.
David Caruso was first seen on a national basis in a coffee commercial of the mid 1970s, in which he played a stockboy in Margaret Hamilton's general store. To pick up extra money between jobs, Caruso offered his services to the New York police department, where his punkish countenance came in handy in line-ups. This same street-smart quality enabled Caruso to win his first semi-regular TV series role in 1981, as the Irish-American gang leader "Shamrock" on Hill Street Blues. Subsequent film and TV assignments were in a similar supporting category (for example, Caruso played the panicky aviation candidate who "washes out" of training early-on in An Officer and a Gentleman [1984]). Caruso's first starring TV gig was on the short-lived 1990 cop series H.E.L.P., as officer Frank Sardoni. He continued in this Law Enforcement vein with the role of Det. John Kelly on TV's NYPD Blue (1993- ) produced by Caruso's old Hill Street Blues boss Stephen Bochco. This was Caruso's breakthrough into full stardom, and he remained with the series for a little over a season. After a highly publicized clash with the producers, David Caruso left NYPD Blue in 1995, parlaying his newfound celebrity into his first starring feature film, Kiss of Death (1995). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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