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Dean Tanaka |
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Soup |
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Male |
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6' 0" |
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US - United States of America |
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July 31, 1966 |
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Mt. Clemens, Michigan, USA |
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c/o William Morris Agency |
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One William Morris Place |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90212 |
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USA |
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c/o Writers & Artists Group International |
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8383 Wilshire Blvd., #550 |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90211 |
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USA |
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Biography |
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Dean Cain (born 31 July 1966) is an American actor. Born Dean George Tanaka, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan to actress Sharon Thomas and US Army serviceman Roger Tanaka. His parents divorced before he was born, but his mother later married film director Christopher Cain; when Dean was three.
Though he grew up in Malibu and attended Santa Monica High School, it became clear that Cain excelled in sports. When he graduated in 1984, he turned down 17 athletic scholarships to attend Princeton University, where he went on to captain the volleyball team and play free safety on the football team (and set an NCAA record for interceptions in a season), in addition to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was also rumored to have dated actress Brooke Shields who was one year ahead of him at the university.
After signing with the Buffalo Bills, a knee injury ended his pro 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 new television series Lois and 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).
Dean Cain is a quarter Japanese, French-Canadian, Irish and Welsh and has a son, Christopher Dean Cain, with model Samantha Torres.
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