At the age of ten, he moved to live in Finland with his mother and her new Finnish husband, where he was raised primarily in Tampere.
Later, he made an appearance in the short film Fear of Feathers and had a role in one episode of CSI: Miami.
In 2005, Urb played a tall, Scandinavian-vintage worker, an awkward yet loyal ranch hand for Willie and Missie LeHay in "Love's Long Journey," the third installment in the 8-episode Hallmark television series "Love Comes Softly."
The next year, Urb made a short appearance in Roland Emmerich's disaster epic 2012 as a heroic pilot and he played a journalist in the fantasy TV series Eastwick.
[3] He also played the part of U.S. Park Ranger Burt Moore, the boyfriend of Abby Sciuto in the series NCIS.