When a knee injury ended his professional football career before it began with the Buffalo Bills, and with little hope of returning to sports, Dean Cain turned back to acting. Doing commercials and appearing on popular television shows like Beverly Hills 90210 before staring for four seasons as Clark Kent/Superman in the highly acclaimed televisions series “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.”  Born Dean George Tanaka in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, to actress Sharon Thomas. His mother later married his adoptive father, film director Christopher Cain. Cain grew up in Malibu and made his feature film debut in 1984 in the critically acclaimed film “The Stone Boy. He attended Santa Monica High School and excelled in sports where he actually focused on a football career rather than acting. He graduated from Princeton University, and set an NCAA 1-AA record for interceptions in a season (12).