As cool as a cucumber, David Caruso blasted onto our screens partnering
with Denis Franz on the then revolutionary 'NYPD Blue'. Through a
contract dispute, he left and re-appeared in a few movies since then,
until Jerry Bruckheimer nabbed him for the super-hot spin-off of CSI
set in Miami. CSI:MIAMI suits Caruso's ice-cool Horatio down to the
ground. Caruso's minimalistic approach partnered with a hothead cop or
suspect makes for wonderful television and upon closer examination, his
intense study of the almost always in control detective is a
masterclass in playing it close to the chest. If you look up 'cool' in
the dictionary, there he is, DC, ready to say something apt before the
title credits launch on a breakaway WHO guitar riff.