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Gary Sinise

Biography

Gary Sinise is a co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is a three-time Tony Award nominee, twice for acting in Steppenwolf's productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Grapes of Wrath and once for Best Director of Buried Child. His many acting credits at Steppenwolf include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Caretaker, Loose Ends and Balm in Gilead . Gary has also directed some of Steppenwolf's most notable productions, including Orphans, the Vietnam veteran drama Tracers and Sam Shepard's True West, which he also performed in with John Malkovich Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre and received an Obie award for Best Director. He's appeared in many films, including Of Mice and Men, Apollo 13, Ransom, Snake Eyes and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting actor for Forrest Gump. On the small screen, he's won the Emmy and SAG awards for Best Actor in George Wallace and a Golden Globe and SAG award for Truman. For nine seasons he appeared as Detective Mac Taylor on the CBS hit series CSI: New York.

He plays electric bass in his band, Gary Sinise and The Lt. Dan Band, a program of the Gary Sinise Foundation which he founded in 2011 to serve and honor the needs of active duty military, veterans, first responders and their families. His first book, Grateful American: a journey from self to service was released in February 2019 and is a New York Times Best Seller. Among many awards for his humanitarian work, in 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizen Medal, the second highest honor an American can receive.

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Member Profiles

Gary Sinise

Gary Sinise

Past Productions