Jeremy Sisto: Years before he went for laughs on ABC’s ”Suburgatory,” Sisto co-starred with Debra Messing in “Jesus,” a hit miniseries for CBS in 1999. (
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Max von Sydow: We loved Max von Sydow (right) in “The Exorcist,” but in 1965 he starred in “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” (Everett Collection / Everett Col)
Jeffrey Hunter: Blue-eyed blond Hunter was Hollywood’s ideal Jesus circa 1961 in the epic “King of Kings.” (
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Jim Caviezel: The “Person of Interest” star sported a soft perm at the Last Supper in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film “The Passion of the Christ.” (
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Can we just say, they never cast an actor from the Middle East to play Jesus. The actors who’ve played Christ our Lord have been Swedish, Canadian, British (Christian Bale) and now Portuguese. proving that Jesus, as depicted in the movies and miniseries below, is truly international.
No one was thinking “We need a Bible story for Easter” at the networks, but Mark Burnett showed that if you have the right story, the audience will come. The History Channel’s “Bible” miniseries joins “The Ten Commandments” and other films that glorify the stories and parables in the Old and New Testaments.
Diogo Morgado
“The Bible”
Little-known actor Diogo Morgado goes for a kind of surfer Jesus look in the hit Mark Burnett miniseries on the History Channel.
Jeremy Sisto
Years before he went for laughs on ABC’s ”Suburgatory,” Sisto co-starred with Debra Messing in “Jesus,” a hit miniseries for CBS in 1999.
Jim Caviezel
The “Person of Interest” star sported a soft perm at the Last Supper in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film “The Passion of the Christ.”
Max von Sydow
We loved Max von Sydow in “The Exorcist,” but in 1965 he starred in “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”
Jeffrey Hunter
Blue-eyed blond Hunter was Hollywood’s ideal Jesus circa 1961 in the epic “King of Kings.”