Early life

Sweeney was born and raised in Shoreham, New York, by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School and both Tulane and New York University. Before completing his B.F.A. at NYU in 1984, he starred in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.

Career

Sweeney guest starred on the television series like The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire. On films, he played a gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987) and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also played Doug Dorsey in The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988) and Dish Boggett in Lonesome Dove (1989).

After voicing Iguanodon Aladar in the Disney CGI animated film Dinosaur, Sweeney starred in Life as We Know It as Michael Whitman (2004-2005) and C-16: FBI produced by Michael Robin.

Sweeney guest-starred on various television series, including House (2006) as Crandall, an ex-bandmate of Dr. Gregory House; Jericho as John Goetz (2006-2008); Castle as a Los Angeles detective (2011), and more. He also had recurring roles as U.S. Marshal Sam Kassmeyer, assigned to protect Haley and Jack Hotchner on Criminal Minds (2009); as Peter Emory in season 1 of Crash (2008); and as Carter in The Event (2010).

He is currently the voice-over artist for the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and his large body of voiceover work includes three seasons of Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and National Geographic Television's Ice Pilots. Past ad campaigns include Bud Light, Lincoln cars, Conoco-Phillips, John Deere, Major League Baseball and Coca Cola.

Sweeney plays Captain John Trent in the horror web series, Universal Dead. In late June 2010, it was announced that Universal Dead will be made into a feature film.

A supporter of the U.S. military, Sweeney founded a website Lettersfromhollywood.army.mil to get messages of support to active duty and retired military. He has made multiple visits to the Middle East and Europe to visit with service members. On May 4, 2008, Sweeney flew with the helicopter squadron HMM-364, "The World Famous Purple Foxes", in a CH-46E while in Iraq visiting with service members and promoting his new film, Two Tickets to Paradise.

In 2012, Sweeney voiced the adult Avatar Aang in The Legend of Korra, the sequel series of Avatar: The Last Airbender. He also narrates the reality television series Mountain Men. He played the role of Bernie in the movie Taken 2 in 2012.

Personal life

In April 2000, Sweeney married Ashley Vachon, they have a son, Cade (born August 26, 2001) and a daughter, Cody (born April 16, 2004).

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Out of the Darkness	Mike	TV movie
1985	Spenser: For Hire	Rick	Episode: "Resurrection"
1986	Power	College Student
1986	Fire with Fire	Thomas Baxter
1987	Gardens of Stone	Jackie Willow
1987	No Man's Land	Benjy Taylor
1988	Eight Men Out	Joseph "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
1989	Lonesome Dove	Dish Boggett	Miniseries
1990	Memphis Belle	Lt. Phil Lowenthal
1991	Blue Desert	Steve Smith
1991	Heaven Is a Playground	Zack Telander
1992	The Cutting Edge	Doug Dorsey
1992	Miss Rose White	Dan McKay	TV movie
1992	Leather Jackets	Mickey
1992	A Day in October	Director Kenneth Madsen
1993	Fire in the Sky	Travis Walton
1993	Hear No Evil	Ben Kendall
1994	Tales From the Crypt	Clyde	Episode: "Staired in Horror"
1995	Roommates	Michael Holzcek
1995	Three Wishes	Jeffery Holman	Uncredited
1995-1996	Strange Luck	Chance Harper / Alex Sanders	17 episodes
1997	Spawn	Terry Fitzgerald
1999	The Book of Stars	Prisoner
1999	NYPD Blue	Joey Dwyer	Episode: "Big Bang Theory"
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Jack Denison	TV movie
1999-2000	Harsh Realm	Mike Pinocchio	9 episodes
2000	After Sex	Tony
2000	Dinosaur	Aladar (voice)
2000	The Outer Limits	Scott Bowman	Episode: "The Grid"
2000-01	Once and Again	Graham Rympalski	4 episodes
2001	Hardball	Matt Hyland
2003	CSI: Miami	Simon Bishop	Episode: "Body Count"
2003	Brother Bear	Sitka (voice)
2004	Speak	Jack Sordino
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Kyle Good	Episode: "Early Rollout"
2004	Going to the Mat	Coach Rice	TV movie
2004	Karen Sisco	Harry Boyle	Episode: "No One's Girl"
2004-05	Life as We Know It	Michael Whitman	13 episodes
2006	The Darwin Awards	Detective Maguire
2006	Two Tickets to Paradise	Billy McGriff	Also director, writer and producer
2006	House	Dylan Crandall	Episode: "Who's Your Daddy?"
2006	Yellow	Christian Kile
2006; 2008	Jericho	John Goetz	5 episodes
2008	Stiletto	Danny
2008	Heatstroke	Captain Steve O'Bannon	TV movie
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Colonel Driscoll
2008	Crash	Peter Emory	4 episodes
2008	Leverage	Father Paul	Episode: "The Miracle Job"
2009	Criminal Minds		3 episodes
2010	CSI: NY	A.D.A. Craig Hansen	Episode: "Criminal Justice "
2010	24	Mark Bledsoe	2 episodes
2010	Three Rivers	Detective Ted Sandefur	Episode: "Status 1A"
2010	The Event	Carter	6 episodes
2010	Fencewalker	Detective
2011	Hawaii Five-0	Richard Davis	Episode: "Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio"
2011	Castle	Detective Kyle Seeger	Episode: "To Love and Die in L.A."
2011	Swamp Shark	Charlie	TV movie
2011	Elwood	Mayor Harrington	Short film
2012	The Legend of Korra	Aang (voice)	4 episodes
2012	Ice Pilots	Narrator	6 episodes
2012	Mountain Men	Narrator	8 episodes
2012	Taken 2	Bernie
2012	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	John Galt
2012-13	Major Crimes	FBI Special Agent Morris	2 episodes
2013	Betrayal	Joseph Tanner	2 episodes
2013	Touch	Howard Goss	4 episodes
2013	Underdogs	Vince DeAntonio
2013-14	Two and a Half Men	Larry	10 episodes
2014	The Boxcar Children	Baker (voice)
2015	The Night Shift	Dick	Episode: "Eyes Look at Your Last"
2015	Heist	Bernie
2015	Chi-Raq	Mayor McCloud
2015	Extraction	Ken Robertson

Charities

D.B. Sweeney supports the following charitable cause: Veterans.

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