Dean Cain is a stage name used by Dean George Tanaka who was born on July 31. 1996. Dean Cain is a famous American actor, film producer, film director, TV producer, screenwriter and even voice actor. He has a net worth of $12 million. His main source of capital has been film roles like Clark Kent/Superman who he played in the TV series called “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”. Dean Cain also is known for playing Shawn Kent in “Rat Race”, Chris Harrison in “Out of Time” and Casey Manning from “Las Vegas”.
Dean Cain Net Worth $12 Million
Dean Cain’s ethnicity can be described as Japanese American, French Canadian, Irish American and Welsh American. Dean’s mother also was an actress who married film director Christopher Cain, and who adopted both his wife’s children and raised them as his own. Dean Cain moved to Malibu, California with his parents and brother. In California Dean’s mother gave birth to a baby girl, but she still later become an actress too.
After college graduation Dean didin’t start his acting career right away. He signed on as a free agent with NFL football team the Buffalo Bills, but injured his knee during training. That’s how Cain’s football career ended before it began. After this unsuccessful attempt Dean turned to acting and screenwriting. His greatest and most known role of Superman gave him huge earnings and has made him well-known all over the world. During it’s most popular period, one episode was seen by more than 15 million viewers. The series ran four seasons in all. Cain’s voice has also been heard as Evan in a role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2 video game console “Grandia Xtreme”.
In 1997 Dean became engaged to the famous American country music singer Mindy McCready, but the couple wasn’t really happy together and broke up the same year. Later Dean Cain was noticed with the Spanish actress and model, Playboy magazine’s Playmate Samantha Torres. On June 11, 2000 their son was born, and named after his father. Dean Cain also tried himself as a businessman. In 1998 he formed his own production company called “Angry Dragon Entertainment”. The best known productions of this company were “Dragon Fighter” released in 2003, “On Parole” released in 2001 and “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”.
Sometimes Dean Cain has even had an opportunity to play himself in TV shows. In 2012 he appeared on six TV shows and in four of them he played Dean Cain – in “Don’t Trust the B – in Apartment 2013”, “Stars Earn Stripes”, “The Choice” and “Bloopers”. In 2013 Dean was involved in one more interesting TV project called “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty” – in this TV reality show Cain offers $10 million dollars to a contestant who will prove the existence of the legendary Bigfoot.
The famous film producer is also known for his political views and donations. In 2008 Dean Cain twice donated $1,000 to one of the richest politicians John McCain. Later in 2012 he donated $250 to another republican, Mitt Romney.
