Born Dean George Tanaka, around Mount Clemens, Michigan to actress Sharon Thomas and U.S. Army military personnel Roger Tanaka. His parents divorced prior to he was innate, however his mother late married director Chris Cain and moved to Malibu, California.

At Santa Monica High School, it became clear that Caaround excelled in sports. Whenever he graduated around 1984, he turned down 17 athletic scholarships to attend Princeton University, where he went in to captain a volleyball team and play loose safety on a eleven (setting the NCAA record for a most interceptions inside one year), additionally to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was likewise rumored to use dated actress Brooke Shields who was one month ahead of him at a university.

Caaround graduated from either Princeton in 1988 (A.B. History) & immediately sign-language in as a free streaming professional sustaining a Buffalo Bills, an NFL football team, but the knee injury when you took how to videos ended his football career prior to it began. By owning little hope of giving to sports, he turned to screenwriting so acting, shooting 12 of commercial message & appearing in popular tv show rather Grapevine, A Different World and Beverly Hills 90210. Inside 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.

Within 1998, Cain started a Angry Dragon Entertainment production company, which produces the fresh TBS Superstation television series ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!. He has as well starred around many films, including The Broken Hearts Club (2000), Out of Time (2003) and Bailey's Billions'' (2004). Around (2004) he portrayed Scott Peterson in the fact-based work television moving-picture show The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story.

Dean Cain occurs as quarter Japanese, French-Canadian, Irish and Welsh & has a boy, Christopher Dean Cain, by owning previous girlfriend and Corinthian model Samantha Torres.