Dean Cain

Dean Cain
Dean Cain
	Cain in Iraq, May 13, 2005
Born	Dean George Tanaka
Occupation(s)	Actor, presenter, producer, writer, voice-over, director
Years active	1976–present

Dean Cain (born July 31, 1966) is an American actor, known for his role as Clark Kent/Superman in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Biography

Early life

Cain was born Dean George Tanaka in Mount Clemens, Michigan, the son of actress Sharon Thomas and U.S. Army serviceman Roger Tanaka, who divorced before he was born. Cain is of Japanese (from his paternal grandfather), French Canadian, Irish and Welsh descent.^[1] His last name, Tanaka, is a Japanese family name. In 1969,^[2] Cain's mother married film director Christopher Cain, who adopted Dean and his brother (musician Roger Cain), and the family moved to Malibu, California. The couple later had a daughter, Dean's half-sister, actress Krisinda Cain who also attended Santa Monica High.

At Santa Monica High School, Cain excelled in sports. He played on the baseball team, and Chad and Rob Lowe and Charlie Sheen—who played on the baseball team—were among his classmates. Cain graduated high school in 1984 and was offered athletic scholarships to 17 universities, but decided to attend Princeton University.^{[citation needed]} At Princeton, he was captain of the volleyball team and played free safety (Defensive Back) on the football team, where he had 12 interceptions in a single season.^{[citation needed]} He was also a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Cap & Gown eating club.^{[citation needed]} While at Princeton, he 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; his senior thesis was titled "The History and Development of the Functions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."

Career

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 his biggest role to date as 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 produced the 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. He's #33 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the '90s. Cain has also made an appearance in the new comical Internet Explorer 8 commercials.

Personal life

Dean has a son named Christopher Dean Cain (b. June 11, 2000) with former girlfriend and Playboy model Samantha Torres. His son is named after his stepfather, film director Christopher Cain. He was previously engaged to country singer Mindy McCready in the late 1990s.

While promoting the television show, Ripley's Believe It or Not, on the Howard Stern Show on January 10, 2001, Cain said that his biological father lied to the National Enquirer by saying that Dean's mother left him while he was serving in the Vietnam War. Dean stated that the truth is his father never served in the war but instead cheated on his mother, with this being the real reason why they divorced.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1976	Elmer	Dean Russell
1979	Charlie and the Talking Buzzard	Joe
1984	The Stone Boy	Eugene Hillerman
1989	Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night		TV
1990	Write to Kill	Parking Valet
1990	Going Under	Guy in Bar
1992	Grapevine	Brian	TV
	Miracle Beach	Volleyball Player #1
	Beverly Hills, 90210	Rick	TV
1993	The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	Himself - Presenter	TV
1993	Touchdown: Football Goes to the Movies	Himself - Host
1993 - 1997	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Clark Kent/Superman	TV Series
1995	Off Camera with Dean Cain	Himself - Host	TV Series / Host / Also Produced and Directed
1996	Cutty Whitman	Clark Kent	TV / Uncredited
1997	Rag and Bone	Tony Moran	TV / Also produced
	Eating Las Vegas	Frank
	Best Men	Sergeant Buzz Thomas
1998	Dogboys	Julian Taylor	TV
1998	Futuresport	Tremaine 'Tre' Ramzey	TV
1999	Ripley's Believe It or Not!	Himself - Host	TV Series / Host / Also produced
2000	The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy	Cole
	No Alibi	Bob Valenz
	Flight of Fancy	Clay Bennett
	Militia	Ethan Carter
	For the Cause (a.k.a. Final Encounter)	Gen. Murran
	The Runaway	Sheriff Frank Richards	TV
2001	Just Shoot Me!	Chris Williams	TV
	Phase IV	Simon Tate
	Firetrap	Jack/Max Hooper	Also produced
	Rat Race	Shawn Kent
	A Christmas Adventure From a Book Called Wisely's Tales	Donner	Voice
2002	Grandia Xtreme	Evann	Video game; Voice
	Gentle Ben	Ben	TV
	New Alcatraz (a.k.a. Boa)	Dr. Robert Trenton
	Dark Descent	Will Murdack
	The Glow	Matt Lawrence	TV
	Christmas Rush	Lt. Cornelius Morgan	TV
	Frasier	Rick	TV
2003	Dragon Fighter	Capt. David Carver	Also produced
	Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain	Jack Wedloe	TV
	Out of Time	Chris Harrison
2003 - 2004	The Division	Insp. Jack Ellis	TV series
2004	Grandpa's Place	Special Appearance	Short
	Post Impact	Sargent/Captain Tom Parker
	I Do (But I Don't)	Nick Corina	TV
	Clubhouse	Conrad Dean	TV Series
	Lost	Jeremy Stanton
	The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story	Scott Peterson	TV
2005	Truth	Peter
	Bailey's Billion$	Theodore Maxwell
	Mayday	Cmdr. James Slan	TV
	Wrinkles
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Mike Jergens	TV
	Las Vegas	Casey Manning	TV
2006	10.5: Apocalypse	Brad	TV
	Max Havoc: Ring of Fire	Roger Tarso
	Dead & Deader	Lt. Bobby Quinn	TV
	September Dawn	Joseph Smith
	A Christmas Wedding	Tucker	TV
2007	Urban Decay	Stan
	Hidden Camera	Dan Kovacs	TV
	Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness	Bruce Murakami	TV
	Final Approach	Jack Bender	TV
	Smallville	Dr. Curtis Knox	TV
	CSI: Miami	Roger Partney	TV
2008	Making Mr. Right	Eddie	TV
	Ace of Hearts	Daniel Harding
	Five Dollars a Day	Rick Carlson
2009	The Way Home	Randy Simpkins
	Aussie and Ted's Great Adventure	Michael Brooks
	The Gambler, the Girl, & the Gunslinger	Shea McCall	TV
	Entourage	Himself	TV
	The Dog Who Saved Christmas	Ted Stein	TV
	Subject: I Love You	James Trapp
	ParFection: The Golf Movie	Repo Man
	Maneater	Harry
	The Three Gifts	Jack Green	TV (Hallmark)
2010	Frost Giant	JC	TV
	Abandoned	Kevin
	Firedog	Tom	Voice
	Georgia	Chris Bailot
	Kill Katie Malone	Robert

References

External links

[1] It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Hunk!; `Lois & Clark's' Dean Cain, Flying the Friendly Skies

[2] ttp://www.filmreference.com/film/15/Christopher-Cain.html

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