james caviezel

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.



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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.



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Caviezel appeared on the TV shows Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years in his early career. He appears as Darryl Harding in the episode of Film Flam which aired on February 19, 1995.





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