D. B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeny is an American actor and voice actor.

Television work

 * The Event
 * Universal Dead
 * 24
 * Criminal Minds
 * Jericho
 * Life As We Know It

Filmography

 * Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
 * Stiletto (2008)
 * Entry Level (2007)
 * Yellow (2006)
 * Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
 * The Darwin Awards (2006)

Other credits

 * Elwood (short)
 * False Creek Stories (short)
 * Vegas: An Opulent Illusion (short)

Personal life
Sweeney was born and raised in Shoreham 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 BFA at NYU in 1984, he was cast in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.

He is married to Ashley Vachon (April 2000 - present) and the two have two children.

Career
Sweeney guest starred on television series The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire before entering films, where he portrayed a gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987). Sweeney is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of Doug Dorsey in The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), or Dish Boggett in Lonesome Dove (1989).

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 automobiles, Conoco-Phillips, John Deere, Major League Baseball and Coca Cola.

Trivia
Sweeney is the director of Two Tickets to Paradise as well as one of the screenwriters, along with Brian Hayes Currie.