Taye Diggs to Guest Star on ‘NCIS’’s 300th Episode

Aubry D'Arminio February 8, 2016, 3:34 pm

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Taye Diggs — Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 30: Actor Taye Diggs attends the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

Broadway vet Taye Diggs may be heading to NCIS, but can he sing a sexy “Happy Birthday” song?

The long-running CBS procedural is celebrating its landmark 300^th episode on Tuesday, March 15 with a very special guest spot by Taye Diggs (Murder in the First) as a musician-turned-soldier suffering from PTSS after a deadly ambush in Iraq.

Diggs’ character is convalescing in a cutting edge music therapy program (based on a real incentive to help rehabilitate soldiers) when Gibbs (Mark Harmon) needs his help to solve the team’s latest murder case. “For our 300th episode, we needed a guest actor who could proudly portray one of our nation’s wounded warriors as well as participate in a very touching musical performance,” NCIS executive producer Gary Glasberg said in a statement. “This emotionally-charged role is tailor made for Taye Diggs and we are so thrilled and honored to have him join us.”

NCIS, 300th episode, Tuesday, March 15, 8/7c, CBS