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A Hollywood star for Sinise

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Oscar-nominated actor and longtime armed forces champion Gary Sinise was honoured on Monday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a markedly military ceremony. The 62-year-old, who has advocated for service personnel and veterans for almost 40 years, was given an honour guard by troops on Hollywood Boulevard, with the national anthem sung by singer-songwriter Steve Amerson.

“I’m grateful for these heroes and all who continue to defend us,” Sinise said as he was presented with the Walk’s 2,606th star for his work in television. “It is a gift to be able to use some of the success that I’ve had in the movie and television business to try to do some good for those who serve and sacrifice each day for our precious freedom.”

His big screen resume includes roles in Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead (1995), Kevin Spacey’s 1997 directoria­l debut Albino Alligator, and Brian de Palma films Snake Eyes (1998) and Mission to Mars (2000). On television he is best known as Detective Mac Taylor in all 197 episodes of the 2004-13 CBS police procedural CSI: NY and currently stars in the network’s Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.

He won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as US President Harry S. Truman HBO movie Truman and an Emmy two years later for TNT’s George Wallace, a biopic of the segregatio­nist Alabama governor.

Robin Rand, a four-star general with the US Air Force who has known Sinise since 2004, described his friend as a “tiger in battle” who is always “just there for us, quietly and without fanfare.”

“To those of us who wear our nation’s cloth, Gary earned his star rank a long time ago,” Rand said.

To those of us who wear our nation’s cloth, Gary earned his star rank a long time ago.” General Robin Rand

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