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Dean Cain Net Worth
Dean Cain's Net Worth as of 2024
$6 Million
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.
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Forest Whitaker Net Worth
Forest Whitaker is a famous American actor, voice actor, film producer, TV and film director. Forest Steven Whitaker was born on July 15, 1961, in Longview, Texas. His main steps in his show business career Whitaker has made as an actor, not as a producer. At the beginning he mostly appeared in musicals, the first of them was “Fast Times at Ridgemon High” (released in 1982). Despite the fact Whitaker’s role in his first movie was really small, he showed himself as a talented actor and was noted by others.
Forest’s career to date has allowed him to accumulate net worth estimated at $40 million.
Forest Whitaker Net Worth $40 Million
In 1995 he proved his great acting talent and charisma when he both appeared in and produced the movie “Waiting to Exhale”. This romantic drama was also his film directorial debut, and received Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture award and several MTV movie awards too. Forest Whitaker really shot to prominence as an actor in 1998, after starring in the lead role in a biographical film about the famous American musician Charlie “Bird” Parker, “Bird”, directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie itself scored 74% on “Rotten Tomatoes” – website devoted to film reviews. Moreover, the actor earned several awards and considerable critical acclaim. After this outstanding performance, Whitaker’s career rose even more.
One more of Whitaker’s big moments was in 2006 for the role of Idi Amin in the movie called “The Last King of Scotland”, for which he received an Academy Award as the Best Actor.
His most recent and notable appearance was in the movie entitled “The Butler”, released in 2013, which is an American historical drama based on the real life of Eugene Allen. Forest Whitaker starred as the main character Cecil Gaines, who dedicated his life to be a professional domestic worker. This movie received five different awards and added a huge amount of money to Whitaker’s net worth.
Today Forest Whitaker lives with his wife Keisha Nash Whitaker – the couple married in 1996. They raise four children: their daughters True and Sonnet, Forest’s son from the previous relationship and Keisha’s daughter.
Forest Whitaker is known to be a vegetarian and the supporter of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Forest supports Barack Obama and is a chief among the Igbo community. Moreover, on June 21, 2011, Whitaker was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation in UNESCO. Today the famous actor supports all UNESCO’s activities and helps to empower young people to keep them away from the cycle of violence in the community. David Killion, UNESCO ambassador from United States, described Forest Whitaker as a person who feels compassion for every kind of humiliation and disgrace and he does his UNESCO job because it is the right thing to do.
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B. J. Novak Net Worth
Benjamin Joseph Manaly “B. J.” Novak was born on July 31, 1979 in Newton, Massachusets, United States, and raised in a Jewish family with two younger brothers – Lev and Jesse. B. J. Novak attended Newton South High School together with the famous American actor and director John Krasinski. After school in 1997 Novak attended Harvard University and after graduation moved to Los Angeles to support himself financially and be independent. There he started to work as a comedian in different clubs and produced an amazing performance on October 10 2001 at the Hollywood Youth Hostel, and by 2003 B. J. Novak’s name was included in the famous list of top 10 Comedians To Watch.
B. J. Novak Net Worth $18 Million
At that time Novak wasn’t at the top of his career. True popularity and success came after his appearance in a British sitcom television series broadcast in the United Kingdom and called “The Office”. There he worked both as an actor and screenwriter. As a writer for the first time, Novak had an opportunity to show his abilities on the TV show “Raising Dad”, although he didn’t work there for very long.
Year 2003 was also successful in B. J. Novak’s life. At that time Novak started to participate in an American hidden-camera reality TV series on MTV entitled “Punk’d”, in which he became one of the main cast members. “Punk’d” was a show of playing pranks on celebrities – they ‘pranked’ Hilary Duff, Racheal Leigh Cook and even Usher.
Today Benjamin Novak has estimated net worth of $20-22 million thanks to his screenwrting, voice and acting career. Since the amazing success of “The Office”, Novak has played in movies “Unaccompanied Minors” (released in 2006), “Reign Over Me” (2007), “Knocked Up” (2007) and “Inglorious Bastards” (2009). In 2014 Novak has already appeared on TV screens – he played Mr. Egypt in the “Community” episode “Basic Sandwich” and in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, where he played one of Spider-Man’s main rivals, Alistair Smythe. He even played Baker Smurf in the famous American 3D comedy called “The Smurfs” – this was one of the most notable of Novak’s performances as a great voice actor.
Novak has been nominated for many awards, including Emmy Award, but has won three of them. He twice won the same award – Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Comedy Series by Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 and 2007 and also won Comedy Series award by Writers Guild of America Awards. Last time he was nominated was for Performance in a Comedy Series.
Today B. J. Novak lives in United States. He is a close friend of Vera Mindy Chokalingam, better known as Mindy Kaling – American comedian, actress and writer. Novak met Mindy while they were both writing for “The Office”. These two sometimes appeared in public as a couple, but their relationship nowadays is called unstable in magazines even after Novak clarified their relationship with Kaling on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live”. However, it couldn’t ruin their close friendship which has lasted for years.
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