Early Life
Caruso was born in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian) descent. His father left when he was two years of age, forcing him to "end up fathering myself", as he put it. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974.
He worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to eighty movies a week. He said they would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were up the back. It was in this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G Robinson. He said:
The ethics of certain actors certainly had a power over me. These guys taught me how to be what I call a stand up kind of guy.
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