James McCaffrey

• Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Birthday: November 30, 1959

As the ghost of Jimmy Keefe, a firefighter who lost his life on 9/11, James McCaffrey provided a near supernatural element to the edgy FX drama “Rescue Me.” A friend and cousin to lead character Tommy Gavin, played by series star and co-creator Denis Leary, McCaffrey’s character acts as both a conscience and a disturbing reminder of mortality.

McCaffrey was born in Ireland but grew up in Albany New York, where he developed interests in both sports and art. He studied Fine Arts on scholarship at New Haven College, where he landed bas…more