He's a very talented guy. He grew up as a Boston Irish Street Tough, who would likely have ended up part of the Irish Mob, but instead formed a singing group that my children loved, "New Kids On The Block" (NKOTB). They still do concerts, though less frequently b/c life has caught up with their beings as youngsters. (I took my kids to one in New Haven, CT. It was only one of two rock band concerts I attended in my whole life, the other being the Brit group, "Hermann's Hermits" when I was a teenager). My kids could not believe their "Boy Scout" Dad had played rhythm guitar in his own band when in HS and college! I told them to buy tix for me and their mother, both of us who grew up during the "British Invasion" in the 1960s. They were incredulous, and suddenly, their parents were "cool". He had a major role in the HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers", one of only a handful of Americans (most Brits) who played the role of American Paratroops during WW2 in the "Screaming Eagles", one of the two highly acclaimed parachute infantry divisions (13,000 men and officers) who led the charge to invade "Fortress Europe" and take it back from Hitler & the Nazis. "E" or "Easy" Company was an assault company, the spearhead of their battalion (3 companies or approx 500 men and officers) in the 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment = 3 battalions) of the 101st Airborne Division. That performance in the series Produced by Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks led to a sudden discovery of his acting talent. His bro, Mark, appears to have found a similar talent; he has a part in the movie, "Patriots Day".