Mac Taylor
| Mac Taylor | |
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| CSI: NY character | |
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| First appearance | "MIA/NYC NonStop" |
| Last appearance | "Today is Life" |
| Portrayed by | Gary Sinise |
| City | New York City |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Detective |
| Position | Crime Scene Investigator |
| Rank | NYPD Detective First Grade CSI Level III Supervisor Director of the NYPD Crime Lab |
| Duration | 2004–2013 |
| Seasons | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Other Appearances |
CSI: Miami (2, 4) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (13) |
Detective Mac Taylor is a fictional character and the co-protagonist of the CBS crime drama CSI: NY. Portrayed by Gary Sinise, Mac is the Director of the NYPD Crime Lab and the Supervisor of the NYPD CSI team. Mac appeared in 200 episodes of the CSI franchise.
Born McCanna Llewellyn Taylor, Mac is the son of McCanna Boyd Taylor and Millie (maiden name unknown). The elder Taylor served in the United States Army during World War II as a member of the 6th Armored Division, which liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. In a taped interview, an elderly Holocaust survivor recounts how Mac's father, then a young Private, restored his dignity and even offered him a candy bar.
After being demobilized, Mac's father worked as a mechanic in the South Side of Chicago, where Mac was raised. In the final episode of season 8 Mac was revealed to have Welsh heritage, and has the middle name Llewellyn.
Mac's father died of small-cell lung cancer and spent the last eight months of his life in bed on a feeding tube. As a result, Mac has come to believe strongly in a person’s right to a dignified death. However, when his father begged him to pull the plug, Mac couldn’t do it.
Mac was married to New York City native Claire Conrad. They married not long before Mac's father died, presumably during the late 1980s and the couple had no children, though Claire had a child named Reed Garrett from a previous relationship, whom she had since put up for adoption. Mac once described Claire as 5'6", athletic, with light brown hair and big blue eyes. Claire was killed in the September 11 attacks and her death troubles and pains him to this day, causing chronic insomnia. After her death, Mac got rid of everything that reminded him of her, except pictures and a beach ball she had blown up, saying, "Her breath is still in there." Her remains were never recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center.
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