David Caruso Life Story

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David Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American actor. Caruso was born in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens. The child of an Italian American father and an Irish American mother, he attended the same Roman Catholic parochial school as Ray Romano and Pia Zadora: Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, New York for elementary and middle school; he later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood.

One of his first film roles was in 1982′s An Officer and a Gentleman, to be followed by a decade in supporting parts. One of these was the television series Crime Story which ran from 1986-88 in which he played Johnny O’Donnell.

His breakthrough role came in 1993 as Detective John Kelly as part of the original lineup of NYPD Blue. Caruso infamously left the show the following year to pursue a film career that failed to materialize.

In 1991 he played kit kat in the movie Hudson Hawk, In 1997, Caruso returned to television as the star of the CBS drama series Michael Hayes. It ran for one season of 22 episodes.

In 2000, Caruso had a supporting role in Proof of Life. In 2001 he played a lead role in the horror film Session 9 and since 2002, has starred as Horatio H. Caine in the highly-rated CSI spin-off CSI: Miami.

Aside from his acting career, Caruso is a co-owner of Steam, a clothing and furniture store in Miami, Florida. He has a daughter, Greta (born June 1, 1984) with his second wife, Rachel Ticotin, and a son, Marquez Anthony (born September 15, 2005) with his girlfriend, Liza Marquez.

Caruso 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.[citation needed] 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). In April 2009, Marquez filed papers suing Caruso for fraud, breach of their settlement agreement and emotional distress. He currently lives in Los Angeles and Miami with his girlfriend, Amina Islam.

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 fleeing to Mexico; following her deportation from Mexico, Austrian officials took her into custody to await trial on the stalking charges.

In early 2007, David Caruso’s team of affiliates created the iconic Horatio Caine Bobble Head doll. Standing approximately 6 inches tall and filled with candy, the doll caricatures the famous CSI star’s pale complexion, red hair and sunglasses. Since its release, the bobble head quickly became a ‘must have’ accessory on the set of CSI Miami, and has grown to be a favourite talisman amongst David Caruso fans.

During a set visit in October 2009, a group of enthusiastic fans, who had traveled to the set from Toronto, Canada were given a bobble head as a thank you gift for making the near 2,200 mile trip to California. Now named “Bobble Head David Caruso” (aka B-HED), the figure has traveled to several cities within the US (LA, Boston, Las Vegas, Chicago, Buffalo, Miami), Australia (Melbourne), Cuba (Holguin), The Bahamas, St Maarten, St Thomas and Canada (Toronto, Banff, Niagara Falls). B-HED has gained momentum with its own media/fan following and has gained significant exposure via his social networking sites.