Dean Cain
Dean Cain is an American actor, producer and writer. He was born as Dean George Tanaka in Mount Clemens, Michigan, the son of actress Sharon Sarah Thomas and U.S. Army serviceman Roger Tanaka, who left the family before Dean was born. Dean is of French Canadian, Irish, Welsh, and Japanese (from his paternal grandfather) descent. In 1969, 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. Both attended Santa Monica High School, where he 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. Dean graduated high school in 1984 and was offered athletic scholarships to 17 universities, but decided to attend Princeton University. At Princeton, he was captain of the volleyball team and played free safety (Defensive Back) on the football team, where he had record-setting 12 interceptions in a single season. Dean 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."
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, Out of Time and Bailey's Billions. 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.
In June 2000, Dean became a father to Christopher Dean Cain, his son 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. Dean owns homes in Malibu; Aspen, Colorado; & Ibiza. He does work for the 'Aspen Grassroots Experience' and he attended their '7th Annual Aspen Celebrity Downhill' (which was held to benefit children through this charity) - 6th to 9th March 2003.
Dean works hard to keep his private life private. Who can blame him?
If you look through his list of films in just the last couple years, more, but not all, of Dean's movies seem to be family-friendly and inspirational. The exciting thing is that just as we have chapter members who pray that they will be a witness to unsaved people on the sets they are on, so there are undoubtedly Christians on some of these sets Dean is working on as well. This means opportunities for him to hear the gospel one-on-one, and sometimes through the script of the very film being shot! Please pray with me this week that God will do a miraculous work in Dean's life to bring him to the foot of the cross and into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ!