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Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick was born on April 17, 1967, in Trujillo, Peru, but he was raised in Trinidad and Tobago and Scotland. Henry has trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and he's also performed with The Royal Shakespeare Company. His first leading role was as Dorian Grey in the stage production of "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" and as Pompey in "Anthony and Cleopatra." Henry's film credits include roles as Jesus in the movie "The Gospel of John" and as Sgt. Michael Clark in "Murder Rooms." He is best known for his television roles as Theo Stiller on the Fox terrorist series "24" and as Desmond David Hume in the ABC castaway show "Lost." Henry and his wife Annie were married on July 15, 2006, following 14 years of common law marriage, and they live in England with their three sons.

Few have illustrated the physical incarnation of Jesus onscreen as convincingly or as hauntingly as Peruvian-Scottish actor Henry Ian Cusick, who signed for the lead in the 2003 production The Gospel of John. Though this hardly represented Cusick's first on-camera appearance (his scattered guest parts in television series such as Casualty and Taggart stretch back to the mid- to late '90s), it was the first role that truly made viewers' heads turn. Cusick's next major accomplishment involved his enlistment in the cast of the blockbuster serial drama Lost, starting in 2005, as Desmond Hume, a former Scottish soldier stranded on the central island via a shipwreck, who encounters the program's ragged band of plane crash survivors in season two. Cusick also guest starred in two episodes of the series 24, in season five (2006) of that program. He could be seen in the video-game adaptation Hitman in 2007, playing Udre Belicoff opposite Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott. In 2008, Cusick co-starred in the direct-to-DVD feature Dead Like Me, a continuation of the storyline from the cult-hit Showtime series of the same name; he played Cameron Kane, who becomes the head reaper after the departure of Rube Sofer, since Mandy Patinkin declined reprise his role as Rube for the film. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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