James Patrick Caviezel (born September 26, 1968) is an American actor. Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004) and starred as John Reese on the CBS science-fiction crime drama series Person of Interest (2011-2016). Caviezel's other notable roles include Private Witt in The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan in Frequency (2000), and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Caviezel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​