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Gary Sinise Stopped Acting in 2020 Amid Son’s Cancer Battle, Says a Comeback ‘May Come Along but It’s Harder to Leave Home. I Just Want to Be Around Family’

Gary Sinise stopped acting to care for his son, Mac, who died from a rare form of bone cancer in 2024.

Gary Sinise recently opened up to People magazine about his decision to leave Hollywood behind five years ago amid his son’s battle with a rare bone cancer. The actor said his work with the Gary Sinise Foundation, which he started in 2011 in order to help veterans and first responders and their families, ended up being a guide for him to navigate his son’s cancer and death. One of his last public media appearances was in 2021 at the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C. Outside of “Forrest Gump” and “CSI: NY,” his other well-known credits include “Apollo 13” and and “The Green Mile.”

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