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Casper Robert Van Dien, Jr. (born December 18, 1968, in or Ridgefield, New Jersey[1]) is an American actor, best known for his role as Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers and most recently as bodyguard Andre in My Network TV's Watch Over Me. is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Early life Casper grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His mother is a retired nursery school teacher, and his father a retired U.S. Navy pilot. There is a long military tradition in Van Dien's family. Besides his father, his grandfather was a marine during WW II. Van Dien is a descendant of an old Dutch family long settled in the New York area; his other heritage includes Swedish, French, English and Native American. When he was older, his family returned to Florida, where he enrolled at the St. Petersburg branch of the Admiral Farragut Military Academy, graduating 3rd in command. Map highlighting Ridgewoods location within Bergen County. ...
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Next, he went to Florida State University in Tallahassee, enrolling in pre-med. Looking for college electives, he began taking theater classes. Soon acting began to overshadow medicine, and he dropped out of FSU to pursue a career in the field. Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[6] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ...
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Career
Casper Van Dien as the title character in Tarzan and the Lost City.
Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, and children. Moving to L.A., he landed a number of small parts in various television series and movies. Two early breaks were recurring roles on One Life To Live and Beverly Hills 90210. This was followed by parts in several straight-to-video releases, including Night Eyes 4, Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus, Night Scream and, ironically, Casper: A Spirited Beginning. Image File history File links Hulkingtarzan. ...
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 Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers. He achieved more notice as the lead in the biopic James Dean Race with Destiny. Soon after, he got the breakthrough role of Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven's science fiction action film Starship Troopers. This directly led to his being cast as the "Lord of the Jungle" in Tarzan and the Lost City [2] Soon following was the role of Brom von Brunt in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, a reworking of the classic Washington Irving tale. Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers This work is copyrighted. ...
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In 2005, he produced and appeared in the reality series I Married a Princess, about his professional and personal life with Catherine Oxenberg, whose mother is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ...
I Married a Princess is a 2005 reality show on the Lifetime TV network starring Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien. ...
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In 2006 through 2007, Van Dien was cast in the My Network TV telenovela Watch Over Me as Andre, bodyguard to bio-terrorist Michael Krieger (played by Marc Menard). His wife Oxenberg also co-starred in the series as Leandra Thames. My Network TV (sometimes written MyNetworkTV, and unofficially abbreviated MNT or MNTV) is an upcoming television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation, which is scheduled to launch on September 5, 2006. ...
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Personal life He was married to Carrie Mitchum (the granddaughter of Robert Mitchum) from 1993 to 1997. They had two children: Cappy (Casper Robert Mitchum Van Dien) and Gracie (Caroline Dorothy Grace Van Dien). The only time the couple worked together was near the end of their marriage, in James Dean: Race with Destiny, which also starred Robert Mitchum. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. ...
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He dated Denise Richards for a short time, while they were making Starship Troopers. Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
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During the filming of The Collectors, he met Catherine Oxenberg. They worked together again in the Christian thriller The Omega Code. The two married in May of 1999. Oxenberg had a daughter, India, from a previous marriage. Van Dien and Oxenberg now have two daughters of their own, Maya and Celeste. The Collectors was a Sixties rock band. ...
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The Omega Code is a 1999, Evangelical Christian made film starring Casper Van Dian as the protagoniost, Dr. Gillen Lane, and Michael York as the the antoganist, Alexander Stone. ...
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In 2006, Van Dien was a guest on Larry King Live, where he admitted that he was sexually abused by a female babysitter at the age of eight. The abuse was a secret he kept until he was 32. This is a list of television-related events in 2006. ...
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Trivia
General - The name Casper is a family tradition, given to the eldest son of his family for more than 11 generations.
- Mark Twain is his great great great uncle.
- He learned the box step, the jitterbug, and ballroom dancing from his parents.
- He grew up on the same block as actor Robert Sean Leonard, and raced go-carts in their neighborhood.
- He was a published poet at 17 years old.
- In high school, he was often referred to as "Ken doll" due to his good looks, and got into many fights for that reason. [3]
- Coincidentally, he was later described as a "perfect life-sized Ken doll." [4]
- He was an extra in two 1989 episodes of Saved by the Bell.
- People magazine gave him the title "Sexiest Soap Star" in November 2000.
- He played the trumpet for 7 years, and played the bugle for "Taps" and "Reveille" during boot camp for Starship Troopers.
- He filmed several scenes as Patrick Bateman, Sean's brother, in 2002's The Rules of Attraction. This was the same character that Christian Bale played in American Psycho. However, the scenes wound up on the cutting room floor.
- Among his good friends are Bailey Chase (who lived in Van Dien's house in 1998 for a year) and Kenny Johnson.
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Ballroom dance is a style of partner dance which originated in the western world and is now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. ...
Robert Sean Leonard (born Robert Lawrence Leonard on February 28, 1969, in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a Tony Award-winning American actor who is most noted for his role as an aspiring actor Neil Perry in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. ...
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Coincidences - The street on which he grew up in New Jersey, Van Dien Avenue, was named after his great great grandfather.
- The last name of James Dean (whom he portrayed in a biopic) is a derivative of Van Dien.
- Starship Troopers was filmed primarily in Casper, Wyoming.
- He played a suitor of Katrina van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow. In fact, Van Dien's family are cousins to the van Tassels.
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References
Filmography - Kill Shot (1995) ... Randy
- Lethal Orbit (1996)
- Love Notes (1996) ... Adam
- Night Eyes 4 (1996) .... Roy
- Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996) ... King Tal
- The Colony (1996)
- Night Scream (1997) ... Teddie/Ray Ordwell Jr.
- Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) .... Bystander
- James Dean: Race with Destiny (1998) ... James Dean
- Starship Troopers (1997) ... Johnny Rico
- Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) ... Tarzan/John Clayton
- Casper Meets Wendy (1998) ... Crewcut Man
- Modern Vampires (1998) ... Dallas
- On the Border (1998) ... Jake Barnes
- Shark Attack (1999) ... Steven McKray
- The Collectors (1999) ... A.K.
- The Omega Code (1999) ... Gillen Lane
- Thrill Seekers (1999) ... Tom Merrick
- Sleepy Hollow (1999) ... Brom Van Brunt
- Sanctimony (2000) ... Tom Merrick
- The Tracker (2000) ... Connor Spears
- Partners (2000) ... Drifter
- Python (2000) ... Bart Parker
- Cutaway (2000) ... Delmira
- Road Rage (2000) ... Jim Travis
- Windfall (2001) ... Ace Logan
- Chasing Destiny (2001) ... Bobby Moritz
- Under Heavy Fire (2001) ... Capt. Ramsey
- Danger Beneath the Sea (2001) ... Commander Miles Sheffield
- The Vector File (2002) ... Gerry
- Big Spender (2003) ... Eddie Burton
- Premonition aka The Psychic (USA title) (2004) ... Jack Barnes
- Maiden Voyage (2004) .... Kyle Considine
- Skeleton Man (2004) ... Staff Sgt. Oberron
- What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) (uncredited) .... Romantic Moritz
- Dracula 3000 (2004) ... Capt. Abraham Van Helsing
- Hollywood Flies (2005) ... Zach
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