Arts & Entertainment

Gary Sinise Drops by Highland Park High School

The actor and musician stopped by the high school he graduated from in 1974 shortly before heading to Ravinia Festival to perform.

The information below comes from District 113.

Famous actor, director, and musician Gary Sinise visited Highland Park High School on Thursday, June 13. His band, Lt. Dan Band, was performing at Ravinia and he wanted to take a walk down memory lane.

Sinise graduated from HPHS in 1974 and has been honored by the high school as one of its distinguished alumni.

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Sinise became a founding member of Chicago’s influential Steppenwolf Theatre Company at age nineteen. He has created a prolific and well-defined career as an actor and director. His performance as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump is only one of his brilliant works, garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Sinise starred in Apollo 13, Truman, and George Wallace, in which he won an Emmy for his performance as George Wallace.


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