D. B. Sweeney
Daniel Bernard Sweeney ( born November 14, 1961 in Shoreham, New York ) is an American actor.
Life and achievements
Sweeney initially wanted to become a professional baseball player, what was impossible because of a traffic accident. He graduated from Tulane University; then he appeared in several theater roles.
Sweeney debuted in 1985 as a film actor alongside Martin Sheen and Hector Elizondo in the television thriller night when the killer comes. In the film drama Gardens of Stone by Francis Ford Coppola in 1987 he played the role of Jackie Willow soldiers who marries Rachel Field (Mary Stuart Masterson ) and later dies in Vietnam in a war effort. In the sci-fi mystery drama fire in the sky 1993, he played the lead role.
For his role in the film drama The Weekend, where he was alongside Gena Rowlands to see in 1999, he won in 2000 the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival. In the comedy Dirt Nap, he served as director, screenwriter, producer as well as performer and won for this work as a director in 2006 an award from the Boston International Film Festival.
Sweeney is married to Ashley Vachon and has one child.