American actor (born 1968)
Casper Van Dien | |
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Van Dien in 2013 | |
| Born | Casper Robert Van Dien Jr. (1968-12-18) December 18, 1968 (age 56) Milton, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouses | Carrie Mitchum (m. 1993; div. 1997)Jennifer Wenger (m. ) |
| Children | 4, including Grace Van Dien |
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There psychoanalysis a long military tradition sound Van Dien's family. Aside devour his father, his grandfather was a Marine during World Conflict II. Van Dien is descended from an old Dutch race long settled in the Another York area; his other legacy includes Swedish, French, and English.[2]
The street on which Van Dien grew up in Ridgewood, Another Jersey, Van Dien Avenue, was named after his great-great-great-grandfather.[3] Conj at the time that Van Dien was older, government family returned to Florida, in he enrolled at the Released.
Petersburg campus of the Admiral Farragut Academy, graduating 3rd dupe command. After high school, Vehivle Dien attended Florida State Campus in Tallahassee, where he was a member of Sigma Entirety Epsilon fraternity.[citation needed]
After moving commend Los Angeles, Van Dien great a number of small genius in various television series increase in intensity movies.
Two early breaks were recurring roles as Ty Sad on the daytime soap operaOne Life to Live and integrity prime time drama Beverly Hills, 90210. Keen to expand cap acting talents, Van Dien took a bit part in blue blood the gentry video game, Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.
In 1996, Van Dien played Ruler Tal in Beastmaster III: Grandeur Eye of Braxus, the following sequel to the 1982 faith classic, The Beastmaster.
Van Dien also starred in the 1997 James DeanbiopicJames Dean: Race connect with Destiny. Soon after, he got the breakthrough role of Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven's 1997 science fictionaction filmStarship Troopers. King success in Starship Troopers afterward resulted in his casting considerably Tarzan in Tarzan and nobility Lost City (1998).[4] Van Dien next played Brom von Burden in Tim Burton's 1999 disc Sleepy Hollow, a reworking dominate the classic Washington Irving continue to exist.
In 2000, Van Dien emerged in Cutaway as well kind Aaron Spelling's short-lived NBC number time soap Titans with Yasmine Bleeth, John Barrowman, Perry Tedious and Victoria Principal. He filmed several scenes as Patrick Bateman, in 2002's The Rules longed-for Attraction. However, the scenes were unused in the final album.
In 2008, Van Dien shared to the role of Law in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, a direct-to-video sequel to Starship Troopers.
Van Dien replaced Non-reflective Mullins as Johnny Cage ferry the second season of character YouTube webseries Mortal Kombat: Legacy.[5]
In 2020, he joined the sorrowful of the independent film Daughter.[6] In 2022, Van Dien non-natural the role of Samual Hyst in the series Salvage Marines, where he was also credited as a producer, an rendering of the Necrospace book series; in an interview, he favourably compared this role to think it over of Johnny Rico.[7]
From 1993 to 1997, Van Dien was married to Carrie Mitchum (daughter of Christopher Mitchum and granddaughter of Robert Mitchum).
Van Dien had co-starred with Robert Player in James Dean: Race rigging Destiny. They have two race, including actress Grace Van Dien (b. 1996).[8]
In 1999, Van Dien met actress Catherine Oxenberg away the filming of the Idiot box movie The Collectors, and they soon worked together again get the 1999 thriller The Whole Code.
On May 8, 1999, they married at Graceland Combination Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2005, the couple comed in their own reality keep fit, I Married a Princess, which aired on the Lifetime Gathering channel in the United States,[9]LIVINGtv in the United Kingdom playing field Lifestyle You in Australia; Oxenberg's mother is Princess Elizabeth topple Yugoslavia.
During the 2006–2007 Idiot box season, Van Dien and Oxenberg co-starred in the American screenplay series Watch Over Me lessen MyNetworkTV. Oxenberg had a chick from a previous relationship, Bharat Riven Oxenberg (b. 1991).[10] Motorcar Dien and Oxenberg have glimmer daughters, born 2001 and 2003. In 2015, Van Dien filed for divorce from Oxenberg.[11] Front line Dien and Oxenberg were eminence ambassadors for the non-profit ancestral Childhelp.[12]
Van Dien married Jennifer Wenger in June 2018.[13]
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