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Dean Cain Biography

Cain was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan to actress Sharon Thomas and U.S. Army serviceman Roger Tanaka. His parents divorced before he was born. His mother later married film director Christopher Cain, and the family moved to Malibu, California. Christopher Cain adopted Dean and his brother, musician Roger Cain. The couple later had a daughter, Dean`s half-sister, actress Krisinda Cain.

At Santa Monica High School, Cain excelled in sports. When he graduated in 1984, he turned down 17 athletic scholarships to attend Princeton University, where he went on to be captain of the volleyball team and play free safety (Defensive Back) on the football team (setting the NCAA record for the most interceptions per game in a single season and most per game in a career)[citation needed], in addition to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity. He also dated actress Brooke Shields, who was one year ahead of him at the university. Cain graduated from Princeton in 1988 with a BA in History; the title of his senior thesis was The History and Development of the Functions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Immediately after graduating, Cain signed on as a free agent with the Buffalo Bills, an NFL football team, but a knee injury during training camp ended his football career before it began. With little hope of returning to sports, he turned to screenwriting and then acting, shooting dozens of commercials and appearing on popular television shows like Grapevine, A Different World and Beverly Hills 90210. In 1993, Cain took on the role of Superman in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which ran until 1997.

In 1998, Cain started the Angry Dragon Entertainment production company, which produces the new TBS Superstation television series Ripley`s Believe It or Not!. He has also starred in several films, including The Broken Hearts Club (2000), Out of Time (2003) and Bailey`s Billions (2004). In 2004, he portrayed Scott Peterson in the fact-based made for television movie The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story. He has also appeared in a recurring role as Casey Manning in the television series Las Vegas. Recently, Cain guest-starred in a seventh season episode of Smallville as the immortal Dr. Curtis Knox, who is based upon the comic book villain Vandal Savage.



 

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posted by charm
I love Dean Cain. My man of my dream!!
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posted by Erika
I`ve had a crush on Dean Cain since I was in the second grade. Who could resist him in those blue tights! I never lost interest though. To this day I still have Dean Cain photos on my wall. AND I`M 22 YEARS OLD! I`m completely smitten. He`s defiantly my Superman!
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posted by Jonathan Hawkins
As Catherine said, I also had a major crush on Dean in my younger years. It seems as time passed I also forgot about him until I stumbled across a copy of Gentle Ben: terror on the mountain. Sure ignited some serious emotions. Love to all Cain Fans.
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posted by Catherine
When I was 11 I had a huge crush on Dean Cain. I grew up, I moved on, I forgot about it... never gave it a second thought. My tastes weren`t very refined at that age and a lot of my childhood crushes seem ridiculous to me now, but Dean... well... I hit it right that time. :-)
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posted by jodean
Dean is a fantastic actor in the right role, a great dad, absolutely gorgous, and is most definately the very essence of Clark.
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posted by Romanka Suwandi
Dean Cain the best act role being Clark Kent and Superman
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Christopher Cain [Step Father] (Adoptive father) :: Roger Cain [Brother] :: Sharon Thomas [Mother] (married his adoptive father, when Dean was three) :: George Tanaka [Father] (abandoned the family)
 

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