David Caruso
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Caruso at the 2008 Emmy Awards
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| Born |
David Stephen Caruso January 7, 1956 Forest Hills, Queens, New York |
| Occupation | Actor, producer |
| Years active | 1976–2012 |
| Spouse(s) |
Cheri Maugans (m. 1979–84) (divorced) Rachel Ticotin (m. 1984–87) (divorced) Margaret Buckley (m. 1996–2007) (divorced) |
| Partner(s) | Liza Marquez (separated) |
| Children | 3 |
David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) 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, Twins, Kiss of Death, Jade and Proof of Life and An Officer and a Gentleman.
David Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian) 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.
Caruso worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to eighty movies a week. He said that he and his coworkers would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were at the back of the theater. It was in this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. He said:
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