Paul Guilfoyle

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.

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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)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

High school

Boston College High School

University

Yale University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Guilfoyle
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464744

Tags

• Massachusetts
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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