Dean Cain Biography

• Along with Michael McKean, Patrick Cassidy and Richard Gant, he is one of only four actors to appear in both "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993) and "Smallville" (2001).

• He is a friend of actor Girard Swan.

• Dean was offered the role of Batman in the 1995 movie, Batman Forever but producers backed out after they felt he was too well known Superman/Clark Kent from days of portraying Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. edit »
  He appeared as a motorcycle rider in the music video "Carrying Your Love With Me" by George Strait.

• He has a fear of flying.

• He is a smoker.

• His favorite superhero growing up was Superman because of the "Super Friends" cartoons.

• He has starred in several movies, including the memorable independent feature, The Broken Hearts Club, in which he played a gay jock.

• While attending Princeton, Dean dated fellow student Brooke Shields, who was just a year ahead of him in school.

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  He turned down 17 athletic scholarships before settling on Princeton. He captained the Princeton volleyball team, and he played safety on the football team; he also set the NCAA football record for the most interceptions in a single season.

• He has a son, Christopher Dean Cain, with his former girlfriend and Playboy model Samantha Torres.

• His ethnicity is a quarter each of Japanese, French-Canadian, Irish, and Welsh.
  
  
• He signed a free-agent contract with the Buffalo Bills, but never played for them due to a career-ending knee injury.
  
  
• Just like Clayton "Bud" Collyer (voice of 1940s Superman in the radio serial), Dean hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not.

• He once auditioned for the role of Jake Hanson on Melrose Place. The part eventually went to Grant Show.

• His mother was an actress named Sharon Thomas, his biological father was a U.S. Army serviceman named Roger Tanaka, and his adoptive father was a director named Christopher Cain.

• In May 2005, Dean took part in Ambassador of Hollywood Tour, Camp in Taquddam Iraq.

• Dean donated his Celebrity Blackjack winnings to The Malibu Foundation for Youth & Families.

• n 1988, Dean founded "Angry Dragon Entertainment," a film production company.

• Dean attended Princeton University, and played football there. He is also a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America.

• He is a spokesperson for "Beyer's Advantage Pet-Parent Initiative"

• Has a Chinese character tattoo that spells "Dean Tanaka" on his left ankle. Tanaka was Dean's surname before his mother remarried, and he changed to his step-father's last name, Cain.

• He dedicated his performance in Best Men to the memory of his uncle, Lt. Col. George Eynon Buzz Thomas, USAF, and to his uncle's family.

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