MY SON
Name: Dean Cain
Date of Birth: July 31, 1966
Place of Birth: Mount Clemens, Michigan, USA
Mini-bio: His parents (actress Sharon Thomas and adoptive father, director Christopher Cain) married when Dean was three. He grew up in Malibu and attended Santa Monica High School but he favoured professional football over acting. After signing with the Buffalo Bills he obtained a knee injury, which ended his pro career before it had a chance to begin. He had already played a part in his father's The Stone Boy(1984) but he went through the usual route of commercials and tv-parts before his break-through role as Superman/Clark Kent in the "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" series, aired in 1993.
Dean was born Dean George Tanaka in Mount Clemens, Michigan, to actress Sharon Thomas and half-Japanese U.S. Army serviceman Roger Tanaka; he is one-quarter Japanese. 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 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. When Cain graduated high school 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, where he had 12 interceptions in a single season, in addition to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Cap & Gown eating club. 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; his senior thesis was titled "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.
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. When Cain graduated high school 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, where he had 12 interceptions in a single season, in addition to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Cap & Gown eating club. 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; his senior thesis was titled "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.
| Eye color: Brown |
| Height: 6`(1.83 m) |
| Heritage: Welsh, Japanese, French-Canadian and Irish. |
| Notable feature(s): Dean has some of Leo`s most famous qualities-aggressiveness, wit, charisma and talent in the arts-but they keep him for being one of the most down to earth guys in Hollywood. Sure he has got everything going for him, but Dean is more like "Everyman" than "Superman". Perhaps it is because of his roots- he was raised by a single mother in a suburban California trailer Park. |
| Dean has a Beauty Spot on his Upper Lip. |
| Education:
Graduated from Princeton University with a major in History.
He promotes the value of education. Dean was invited by House Speaker Tom Foley and Minority Leader Bob Michel to the featured guest speaker on behalf of the prestigious Congressional Arcs Cancus in Arts and Education, while in Washington.
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| Dean was also able to meet with the former US President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. |
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Relationships:
Brooke Shields, Ami Dolenz, Pamela Anderson and Gabrielle Reece.
He was engaged to country singer Mindy McCready in the late 1990s. |