Jim Caviezel’s Family 2023 Jim Caviezel shot to fame with the 2004 movie
The Passion Of The Christ where he portrayed the role of Jesus Christ.
Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son of Margaret , a homemaker and former
stage actress, and James Caviezel, a chiropractor.
He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin.
He was raised in a tight-knit Catholic family in Conway, Washington.
His surname is Romansh.
His father is of Slovak and Swiss descent, while his mother is Irish.
Who is Jim Caviezel's wife Kerri?
The pair met on a blind date set up by Kerri's sister in 1993 and eventually got married
three years later.
Kerri was born in Washington to David James Browitt and Jean Vandetta.
She has two brothers, David and Jim, and one sister, Kristen Linehan, according to TheFamousPeople.
Before marrying her husband, Kerri was a successful basketball player and was part of the women’s
basketball team WWU Vikings while attending Western Washington University (WWU).
She was so skilled that she was given the "President’s List" award at her college
nine times, and earned the distinction of becoming an NAIA National Scholar-Athlete.
She never pursued the sport professionally out of college and instead decided to become
a teacher.
She took up a job as an English teacher in a high school in Seattle, Washington, and
continue to teach to this day.
When did they get married?
Jim and Kerri met for the first time in 1993 during a blind date set up by Kerri's sister
Amy.
They soon became friends and eventually were lovers.
On July 20, 1996, she married Jim in the presence of their family and friends at the Immaculate
Conception Church in Roslynn, Washington.
She, like Jim, is a devout Catholic.
How many children does Jim Caviezel have with Kerri?
Jim and Kerri don't have any biological children, but they did adopt three orphans from China.
According to TheFamousPeople, they have two sons, David and Bo, and a daughter, Lyn.
Bo and Lyn had a brain tumour at the time of birth while David had high stage sarcoma
on his leg.
Thankfully, both the children’s brain tumours were benign and successfully removed, while
David’s leg was saved too.
James Patrick Caviezel Jr. was born September 26, 1968 (age 54), he is an American film
and television actor who played Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ (2004) and starred
as John Reese on the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016).
He also has played roles such as Slov in G.I.
Jane (1997), Private Witt in The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan in Frequency
(2000), Catch in Angel Eyes (2001), and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo.