Sean Patrick Flanery

Sean Patrick Flanery is an american actor widely known for his role in the series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Dead Zone.

Biography
Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised in Sugar Land, Texas, his father was a medical equipment salesman and his mother a real estate broker. After attending Awty International School, Flanery graduated from John Foster Dulles High School in 1984 and then attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston to study for a business degree.

Flanery started acting in college after he joined an acting class to meet a girl that he had a crush on. He began doing theater and discovered his passion for acting. He left college and relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career and waited tables before he got an agent. He got an agent and after eight months of looking for work, Flanery began acting in TV commercials and then he got to appear in two multi-part movies on Disney's Mickey Mouse Club: Just Perfect (1990) and My Life as a Babysitter (1990). Although he made his film debut in 1987's A Tiger's Tale, it was his work in the 1992 television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles that gave Flanery his first taste of recognition and the opportunity to travel to 33 countries with George Lucas. Although the series was short-lived, it did manage to build up something of a fan base, and Flanery continued to make Young Indy specials until 1996.

Early movie roles included Guinevere (1994) (TV), Frank & Jesse (1995), Powder (1995), Eden (1996), Truman Capote's The Grass Harp (1995), and The Method (1996). Flanery continued to appear in a number of films, including 1997's Suicide Kings and the 1998 Best Men. Also in 1998, he could be seen portraying a callous rocker in the independent film Girl. The following year, Flanery starred in the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible. Later that same year, he could be seen giving romance another try in Body Shots, a tale of angst-ridden twenty-somethings in L.A.'s treacherous dating scene.

On TV he had a brief role as the ascended being Orlin on Stargate SG-1. He appeared in a much larger role on the TV show The Dead Zone as Vice-President Greg Stillson, until its cancellation. Other episodic roles came from Charmed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Numb3rs and Criminal Minds. Flanery also appeared in an installment of Masters of Horror playing a town sheriff.

He does mainly independent films and maintains a low Hollywood profile.

Criminal Minds
He played a very disturbed man, Darrin Call, in the Season Five episode Haunted.