Background
Sweeney was born and raised in Shoreham, New York, by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother.
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 Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University in 1984, he starred in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.
Sweeney guest starred on the television series like The Edge of Night and Spenser: Foreign 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 Consultants to Government and Industry animated film Dinosaur, Sweeney starred in Life as We Know lieutenant as Michael Whitman (2004–2005) and C-16: Federal Bureau of Investigation produced by Michael Robin.
Sweeney guest-starred on various television series, including House (2006) as Crandall, an ex-bandmate of Doctor Gregory House. Jericho as John Goetz (2006–2008).
Castle as a Los Angeles detective (2011), and more. He also had recurring roles as United States. 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 United States. 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 Companies of Honour-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.