Dean Cain

Dean George Cain ( Tanaka; born July 31, 1966) is an American actor.

Dean George Tanaka was born on July 31, 1966, in Michigan to Roger Tanaka, a U.S. serviceman, and actress Sharon Thomas.

Through his biological father, Cain is of partly Japanese descent, with the rest of his ancestry being Welsh, Irish and French Canadian.

Cain has said of his biological father, whom he never met: "He's not the kind of man I want to be. He was an unfaithful husband and not much of a father."

Soon after Dean's birth, his mother, pursuing an acting career, moved him and his older Brother Roger to Los Angeles.

In 1969, Sharon married film director Christopher Cain, who adopted Dean and Roger.

The couple moved to Malibu, California, and later had a daughter, Krisinda.

Cain attended Santa Monica High School, where he excelled in sports.

Among his schoolmates were Charlie Sheen, who played on the same baseball team as Cain when they were children, as well as Rob Lowe and his brother, Chad.

Cain graduated from high school in 1984 and attended Princeton University, where he starred as a free safety on the football team, set a Princeton season record with 12 interceptions (in just ten games) during the 1987 season, and finished his collegiate career with 22 interceptions in 30 games.

During his senior year, Cain was awarded the John P. Poe–Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr. Football Trophy.

He dated actress Brooke Shields while at the university.

Cain graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

His senior thesis was titled "The History and Development of the Functions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences".

After graduating, Cain signed on as a free agent with the NFL's Buffalo Bills, but a knee injury during training camp ended his football career prematurely.

With little hope of returning to sports, Cain turned to screenwriting and then acting, shooting dozens of commercials including a volleyball-themed spot for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and appearing on popular television shows like Grapevine, A Different World, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Cain was the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and appeared in the sports drama series Hit the Floor.

In 1993, Cain took on his biggest role to date as Superman in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

At the height of its popularity the program would bring in an average of at least 15 million viewers per episode.

The series ran for four seasons, ending in 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), Rat Race (2001), Out of Time (2003), and Bailey's Billion$ (2004).

In 2004, he portrayed Scott Peterson in the made-for-television movie The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story.

He appeared in a recurring role as Casey Manning in the television series Las Vegas.

Cain made a return to the Superman franchise, with a special guest role in a season seven episode of Smallville as the immortal Dr. Curtis Knox, a character based upon the DC Comics villain Vandal Savage; and again in a recurring role on Supergirl, as the title character's foster father, Jeremiah Danvers.

He is also the star of the VH1 hit series Hit the Floor as Pete Davenport, who is the new head coach of a fictional NBA team and has an illegitimate daughter who is a cheerleader for his NBA team.

He was ranked No. 33 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the '90s.

Cain was a contestant in an NBC celebrity reality competition series called Stars Earn Stripes.

He won four out of six missions on the show, though he came in third in the finals.

In 2012, he participated in Fox's dating game show The Choice.

In 2013, Cain hosted a reality show about Bigfoot titled 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, where he offered contestants $10 million to prove the existence of Bigfoot.

Cain appeared in the mid-season premiere of Comic Book Men, appearing at Kevin Smith's Secret Stash where the crew was celebrating 75 years of Superman, citing that Dean Cain helped people care about Superman again.

Cain appeared in the film God's Not Dead, in which he plays an arrogant businessman.

Between 2015 and 2017, he portrayed Jeremiah Danvers in Supergirl.

Cain is known for appearing in 16 Christmas films and several faith-based films.

In 2016, Cain played a guest role on the Netflix original series Lady Dynamite as Graham the ex-fiancé of Maria Bamford.

As of 2018, Cain is hosting a television infomercial for The National Real Estate Network, an entity which seeks to persuade individuals to attend meetings where they can learn about flipping real estate.

In October 2018, it was learned that Ronnie Mund (Ronnie the Limo Driver), the personal driver and bodyguard of radio DJ Howard Stern, had been using a photoshopped picture of Cain as a publicity photo.

Specifically, Mund's head had been transposed onto the body of Cain.

Mund initially denied the photo was altered but eventually acknowledged he had been using the fraudulent photo for over five years.