Dean Cain sacrificed his career to raise his son alone – vowing to not be like his own dad who abandoned him

January 2, 2026 by salah

Cain was born Dean George Tanaka on July 31, 1966, in Michigan. His biological parents are Sharon Tanaka and Roger Tanaka but the story of who raised Cain is interesting.

His biological father abandoned his family just after two years of marriage to Cain’s mother. When he was three years old, however, his mother moved on and remarried. She married director Christopher Cain, who legally adopted both Dean Cain and his brother.

Dean legally changed his last name to Cain. And of his biological father, he said, “My biological father is Japanese. I never knew him, never met him.” Showing that he did not share a relationship with his birth father.

 

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It was reported that Roger Tanaka; Dean Cain’s birth father moved on and remarried in 1982 but apparently, he never tried to reconcile his relationship with his two sons.