Background and career
Troy Dunn is an American television personality, producer, and public speaker who specializes in creating and producing television that generally includes reuniting people with long-lost loved ones.
Troy Dunn was born in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Enid High School in Enid, Oklahoma.
Dunn was the executive producer and star of three primetime television shows, including The Locator, which ran for five seasons on the cable network WE. In 2013, the cable network TNT announced it was producing a similar programme, for which he would be executive producer and host, APB with Troy Dunn. In 2015, he was the host and executive producer of the UPTV show Last Hope With Troy Dunn. In 2018, Dunn hosted the Facebook Watch web series Dr. Phil Presents: Tuesdays with Troy, a web series presented under the Dr. Phil brand.
Dunn executive produced and co-hosted the podcast The Geddie Dunn Show with close friend and Emmy-winning TV producer Bill Geddie from 2017 to 2020.
Dunn has authorized numerous best-selling books, including Family: The Good F Word, Young Bucks, and Life Lessons From The Locator
In 2002, Dunn sold his company BigHugs.com to Ancestry.com.
