Is David Caruso related to the late Enrico Caruso?

Question

David Caruso is an excellent actor . Canadian I believe, and I was wondering if by any chance he could be related to the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso. Anyone knows ?

Answer 1

No, they are not related. 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 also in this year he starred as a policeman in Rambo: First Blood, 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. In 1991 he played Kit Kat in the movie Hudson Hawk. 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 sputtered.

In 1997, Caruso returned to television as the star of the CBS drama series Michael Hayes. It ran for one season of 22 episodes. He had a supporting role in the movie Proof of Life in 2000. In 2001 he had a lead role in the horror film Session 9. Since 2002, has starred as Horatio H. Caine in the highly-rated CSI spin-off CSI: Miami. (In the opening credits of the show, the formula 4y − 1 = 3b(Nh) becomes David Caruso.)

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.


Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873–August 2, 1921) was one of the most famous tenors in the history of opera. Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the first twenty years of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music. Caruso's popular recordings and his extraordinary voice, known for its range, power, and beauty, made him one of the best-known stars of his time.

During his career, he made nearly 260 recordings and made millions of dollars from the sale of his 78 rpm records. While Caruso sang at many of the world's great opera houses including La Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London, he is best known as the leading male singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for seventeen years. Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who conducted some of the operas that Caruso sang in at the Met, considered him one of the greatest artists he had ever worked with.

Born in Naples, Italy, Caruso began his career in that city in 1894. The first major role that he created came in Giordano's "Fedora" (Milan, 17 November 1898).

In 1903, with the help of his agent, the banker Pasquale Simonelli, he went to New York City to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera. The following year Caruso began his lifelong association with the Victor Talking-Machine Company; his star relationships with both the Metropolitan and Victor would last until 1920.

Caruso was one of the first star vocalists to make numerous recordings. He and the disc phonograph did much to promote each other in the first two decades of the 20th century. His 1902 recording of Vesti la giubba from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (Clowns) was the world's first gramophone record to sell a million copies. Many of Caruso's recordings have remained in print since their original issue a century ago.

Caruso died in 1921, from what is thought to be complications of pleurisy, which was apparently not diagnosed in time to save him. He was 48. He is buried in Naples.

His life was the subject of a highly fictionalized Hollywood motion picture, The Great Caruso, in 1951.
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Trivia

* Caruso performed in Carmen in San Francisco in front of thousands the night before the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Caruso was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco when the earthquake struck.
* Caruso was the 18th of 21 children. Due partly to a cholera epidemic in Naples, none of the first 17 Caruso children lived to adulthood.

Answer 2

David Caruso Children

Answer 3

I highly doubt it.
You know, I never liked the guy, I know many people do. I always though he was a self inolved prima donna. I also thought Jimmy Smits made NYPD Blue a better show.

Answer 4

Nope!

Answer 5

no, maybe he just likes the name!

Answer 6

no