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Gary Sinise

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Also known as Gary Alan Sinise

American actor

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Gary Sinise is an American actor and humanitarian whose professional career began in 1980. He has three children. His notable works include *Mission: Invincible Marriage*, *Apollo 13/Widescreen/Clv*, *Grateful American*, and *CSI: NY*. Sinise is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection.

He maintains an official website that details his career, biography, awards, and news, as well as information about the Gary Sinise Foundation. The subject is referenced by 759 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Mission : Invincible Marriage
  • Apollo 13/Widescreen/Clv
  • Grateful American
  • CSI: NY

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1955-03-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
278
Total plays
873

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Official website

Gary Sinise

Official website of actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise: career, biography, awards, news, and the Gary Sinise Foundation.

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Encyclopedic overview

Gary Alan Sinise (/sɪˈniːs/; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor. He has won a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Actor Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award. He has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sinise has also received awards and honors for his extensive humanitarian work and involvement with charitable organizations, notably the Gary Sinise Foundation, of which he is the founder and chairman of the board of directors. He also founded the Lt. Dan Band (named after his character in Forrest Gump), which plays at U.S. military bases around the world.

Sinise's career started on stage with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company (which he co-founded) in 1983 when he directed and starred in a production of Sam Shepard's True West for which he earned an Obie Award. Sinise directed Orphans by Lyle Kessler on Broadway in 1985. Also in 1985, he earned the Regional Theatre Tony Award alongside the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He also received Tony Award nominations for his performances in The Grapes of Wrath (1988) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2001).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gary Sinise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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