“I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.”

American actor

D. B. Sweeney is an American actor best known for film roles in the late 1980s and 1990s. He is known for playing Jackie Willow in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle, and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky. His film work also includes Eight Men Out, The Cutting Edge, Dinosaur, and Brother Bear. He is associated with a steady screen career across action, drama, and family films.