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.