My Take
Paul Guilfoyle is one of those character actors who quietly becomes the backbone of a show without ever getting top billing, and Captain Jim Brass on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the perfect example of that. From 2000 to 2014 he played Brass with this lived-in, world-weary authority — the kind of cop who's seen everything twice and isn't impressed by any of it — and he made the forensics-heavy ensemble feel genuinely grounded. What I appreciate most is that he's a Yale-trained actor who could have chased prestige theater roles, but instead he built a career doing the unglamorous work of making other people's scenes better. The fact that the show called him back for the finale and then again for CSI: Vegas says everything about how central he really was.
Overview
Paul Vincent Guilfoyle () (born April 28, 1949) is an American character actor. He was a regular cast member of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, on which he played Captain Jim Brass from 2000 to 2014. He returned for the series finale, "Immortality", in 2015. He also returned for two episodes in the sequel CSI: Vegas.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paul Guilfoyle
- Name (Japanese)
- ポール・ギルフォイル
- Reading
- ぽーる・ぎるふぉいる
- Born
- April 28, 1949 (age 77)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Ox
- Origin
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Boston College High School
- University
- Yale University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.