James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. is an American actor. Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson and played John Reese in the sci-fi crime television series CBS Person of Interest. Other notable roles for Caviezel include Slov in G.I. Jane, Private Witt in The Thin Red Line, Detective John Sullivan in Frequency, Edmond Dantès in Count of Monte Cristo, and William Hobbes in The Escape Plan.

In 2004, he played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, and in 1998, he played Private Witt in The Thin Red Line, a WWII epic film. He also starred in the 2000 sci-fi film Frequency alongside Dennis Quaid and the 2002 crime thriller High Crimes alongside Ashley Judd. He started as John Reese on the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest in 2011.