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DEAN CAIN
Dean Cain, host of RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! garnered international prominence portraying a national icon on television, and has since parlayed his popularity into an accomplished film and producing career. And, now he has just completed lensing “Out of Time,” where he stars opposite Denzel Washington and is directed by Carl Franklin. MGM is set to release the film during fall 2003.
Most notably, Cain starred for four seasons as Clark Kent/Superman in the highly acclaimed televisions series “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” He was last seen on the big screen in the Jerry Zucker-directed Paramount comedy “Rat Race” with Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green, and John Cleese. He also starred in “Broken Hearts Club,” a romantic comedy that premiered to great acclaim at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to his film work, Cain will be seen on television in the FOX movie thriller, “The Glow,” with Portia de Rossi. This film comes on the heels of the 2002 Sony Pictures Television thriller for TBS, “Christmas Rush.”
Cain grew up in Malibu and made his feature film debut in 1984 in the critically acclaimed film “The Stone Boy,” which also starred Robert Duvall and Glenn Close. He would later attend Santa Monica High School where he actually focused on a football career rather than acting. He went on to Princeton University and set an NCAA 1-AA record for interceptions in a season (12). Shortly thereafter, he signed with the Buffalo Bills, but a knee injury quickly ended his professional career before it began. He turned back to acting and starred in the cop comedy “Best Men” with Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson, “Flight of Fancy,” and the telefilms, “Dog Boys,” “Rag and Bone,” “Futersport,” co-starring Wesley Snipes and Vanessa L. Williams, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame film “The Runaway,” with Maya Angelou. Cain also spent a season playing Rick on the popular series “Beverly Hills 90210.”
Cain is not just an athlete and actor. He and his Princeton alum and friend, Mike Carr, founded Angry Dragon Entertainment in 1998. The production company’s first series, RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!, premiered as the highest-rated original series on cable and has remained enormously successful not only for Angry Dragon and Sony Pictures Television, but also TBS, as it consistently ranks as the network’s highest-rated original series.
Cain resides in Los Angeles with his son.
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