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Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning, Golden Palm- and Academy Award-nominated American actor and film director. In 1992, Sinise directed the film and played the role of George Milton in the movie adaption of Of Mice and Men. Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump. The intense, wiry, dark-haired Gary Sinise first made his mark in the burgeoning theater scene of his native Chicago. Just out of high school, he joined with Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry (and others) to band together and form the Steppenwolf Theater, which in 1974, was housed in a church basement in Highland Park. Serving as artistic director until 1987, Sinise honed his skills as both actor and director. Striking out for the West Coast, he landed in Southern California in the late 1970s but found few roles beyond extra work in disco scenes on the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital" and bit roles in primetimes shows (like CBS' serial "Knots Landing"). He won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for his role in Truman. In 1996, he played a corrupt police officer in the Ron Howard dramatic hit Ransom. In 1998, Sinise was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for the television film George Wallace, a portrayal of the late Governor George C. Wallace, Jr., of Alabama. He currently stars in CBS's CSI: NY as Detective Mac Taylor. Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, the son of Millie and Robert L. Sinise, who was a film editor. He is of partial Italian origins. He attended Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois, and continued his education at Illinois State University, in Normal, Illinois. In 1974, Sinise and two friends, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry, founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Since its founding, Steppenwolf has showcased the talents of such notable actors as Kevin Anderson, Joan Allen, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly, John Malkovich, Jim True-Frost and Laurie Metcalf. At Steppenwolf, Sinise honed his acting and directing skills and worked on more than thirty of the company's productions. In 1982, Sinise's career began to take off when he directed and starred in Steppenwolf's production of True West. In 1983, he earned an Obie Award for his direction and a year later appeared with John Malkovich in the PBS' American Playhouse production of the play. In 1988, Gary directed Miles from Home, a movie starring Richard Gere, about two brothers' fight against the foreclosure of the family farm. Sinise has appeared in many films including: Forrest Gump, Of Mice and Men (which he also directed), Apollo 13, Reindeer Games,Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars, The Stand, Impostor and The Green Mile. He also narrated the audio books for John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and Of Mice and Men. This chameleon-like ability has allowed the actor to be cast as everything from less than heroic types (as in "Ransom," 1996) to outright villains (as in "Reindeer Games," 2000) to more conventional leads ("Mission to Mars," 2000) to quirky supporting character bits (in the Shirley MacLaine-directed comedy "Bruno," 2000). Sinise abandoned star power in favor of more challenging projects in the early 2000s, but even in a string of lesser films the actor's performances remained involving. In 2003 he acted opposite heavyweights Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman and Ed Harris in the film adaptation of novelist Phillip Roth's "The Human Stain," in which he played recurring Roth character Nathan Zuckerman. In the meandering, Elmore Leonard-derived caper "The Big Bounce" (2004), Sinise took on another villainous role, a developer who wants to put up high-rise hotels and spoil the flavor of Hawaiian paradise. The actor then tabled big screen supporting turns in favor of moving to network television to star as Det. Mac Taylor in "CSI: New York" (CBS, 2004 - ), the third incarnation of the hit forensic-minded crime drama franchise. Meanwhile, he maintained a presence on the big screen with his supporting turn in the paranormal thriller "The Forgotten" (2004). In 2004, he began his first regular television series, in the crime drama CSI: New York, in which he plays Detective Mac Taylor. Several episodes have allowed Sinise to demonstrate his musical prowess, including a Season 2 episode where Mac Taylor plays the bass guitar in a jazz club with musicians Kimo and Carol Williams and Danny Gottlieb, members of the Lt. Dan Band, which Sinise and Kimo Williams co-founded in 2003. The band is named for Sinise's character in Forrest Gump. Despite his preference for film work, Sinise has never abandoned his stage roots. He earned a second Tony nomination for his direction of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" in 1996 and undertook the daunting role of Stanley Kowalski in a 50th anniversary staging of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Steppenwolf. He again returned to Chicago to star as the rebellious inmate Randle McMurphy in a 2001 revival of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The actor also enjoyed a lucrative side career as a voiceover actor for television commericals and audio books. Apart from his television and movie work, Sinise is the host in the video for the Epcot ride Mission: SPACE, at Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL and the current model for Baume & Mercier watches. He also co-founded Operation Iraqi Children. Sinise also was awarded the GI Spirit Award for the 2007 GI Film Festival. Sinise has been married to actress Moira Harris since 1981 and they have three children together: Sophia Ana (b. 1988), McCanna Anthony (b. 1990), and Ella Jane (b. 1992). In 2003, Sinise was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters by Amherst College. |
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