Dean Cain Biography

Fast Facts

• Turned down 17 full athletic scholarships to attend Princeton University, where he set an NCAA record for the most interceptions in a single football season
• Dated Brooke Shields for two years while they were both attending Princeton
• Aspired to play pro football and signed with the Buffalo Bills, but a knee injury ended his sports career
• Made his big-screen debut in the 1984 drama The Stone Boy, opposite Glenn Close and Robert Duvall
• Wrote two episodes of the ABC Superman series Lois & Clark
• In the late '90s, formed Angry Dragon Entertainment, which produced the incarnation of Ripley's Believe It or Not! that he hosted from 2000 to '03
• Played convicted killer Scott Peterson in the 2004 made-for-TV movie The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story
• Starred in the 2007 period drama September Dawn, directed by his stepfather, Christopher Cain
• Collaborated with Christopher Cain again on his first feature screenplay, for the 2010 sequel Pure Country 2: The Gift