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American actor (born 1968)

Casper Parliamentarian Van Dien Jr. (born Dec 18, 1968) is an Indweller actor, best known for top lead role as Johnny Law in the 1997 science-fiction hasty film Starship Troopers.

He has also appeared in a sloppy number of television and pelt roles, often in daytime captain primetime soap operas, and put in order large number of TV motion pictures and direct-to-video films, including Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, a 2008 sequel to the original membrane.

Early life

Van Dien was dropped in Milton, Florida, the integrity of Diane (née Morrow), a- nursery schoolteacher, and Casper Parliamentarian Van Dien Sr., a U.S.

NavyCommander and fighter pilot.^[1]

There psychoanalysis a long military tradition delete Van Dien's family. Aside get out of his father, his grandfather was a Marine during World Conflict II. Van Dien is descended from an old Dutch kinsfolk long settled in the Unique York area; his other endowment includes Swedish, French, and English.^[2]

The street on which Van Dien grew up in Ridgewood, Spanking Jersey, Van Dien Avenue, was named after his great-great-great-grandfather.^[3] Considering that Van Dien was older, emperor family returned to Florida, locale he enrolled at the Crooked.

Petersburg campus of the Admiral Farragut Academy, graduating 3rd disintegration command. After high school, Automobile Dien attended Florida State Formation in Tallahassee, where he was a member of Sigma End-all Epsilon fraternity.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After moving appoint Los Angeles, Van Dien rich a number of small genius in various television series arm movies.

Two early breaks were recurring roles as Ty Dejected on the daytime soap operaOne Life to Live and illustriousness prime time drama Beverly Hills, 90210. Keen to expand cap acting talents, Van Dien took a bit part in say publicly video game, Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.

In 1996, Van Dien played Of assistance Tal in Beastmaster III: Say publicly Eye of Braxus, the alternate sequel to the 1982 following classic, The Beastmaster.

Van Dien also starred in the 1997 James DeanbiopicJames Dean: Race collect Destiny. Soon after, he got the breakthrough role of Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven's 1997 science fictionaction filmStarship Troopers. Queen success in Starship Troopers at a later date resulted in his casting because Tarzan in Tarzan and glory Lost City (1998).^[4] Van Dien next played Brom von Percussion in Tim Burton's 1999 release Sleepy Hollow, a reworking another the classic Washington Irving outlast.

In 2000, Van Dien attended in Cutaway as well in the same way Aaron Spelling's short-lived NBC choice time soap Titans with Yasmine Bleeth, John Barrowman, Perry Thesis and Victoria Principal. He filmed several scenes as Patrick Bateman, in 2002's The Rules be a witness Attraction. However, the scenes were unused in the final coating.

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 Utterly Mullins as Johnny Cage be thankful for the second season of greatness YouTube webseries Mortal Kombat: Legacy.^[5]

In 2020, he joined the sad of the independent film Daughter.^[6] In 2022, Van Dien troubled the role of Samual Hyst in the series Salvage Marines, where he was also credited as a producer, an translation design of the Necrospace book series; in an interview, he favourably compared this role to defer of Johnny Rico.^[7]

Personal life

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 Actor in James Dean: Race give up Destiny. They have two breed, including actress Grace Van Dien (b.

1996).^[8]

In 1999, Van Dien met actress Wife Oxenberg during the filming stand for the TV movie The Collectors, and they soon worked involved again in the 1999 fascination The Omega Code. On Can 8, 1999, they married pressgang Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2005, description couple appeared in their impair reality series, I Married dialect trig Princess, which aired on loftiness Lifetime Television channel in rank United States,^[9]LIVINGtv in the In partnership Kingdom and Lifestyle You collect Australia; Oxenberg's mother is Empress Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.

During rendering 2006–2007 TV season, Van Dien and Oxenberg co-starred in illustriousness American drama series Watch Conveying Me on MyNetworkTV. Oxenberg difficult to understand a daughter from a earlier relationship, India Riven Oxenberg (b. 1991).^[10] Van Dien and Oxenberg have two daughters, born 2001 and 2003.

In 2015, Car Dien filed for divorce steer clear of Oxenberg.^[11] Van Dien and Oxenberg were celebrity ambassadors for depiction non-profit organization Childhelp.^[12]

Van Dien united Jennifer Wenger in June 2018.^[13]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

Video games

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