Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien was born into a military family on December 18th , 1968, in Ridgefield, New Jersey.
His fame was beginning to build. Van Dien would next play another American icon, Tarzan. Neither Starship Troopers nor Tarzan did very well at the box office, but they did allow America to put a name to the handsome young actor.
Casper Van Dien (born Milton, Florida, 18 December 1968) is an American actor.
The son of a U.S. Navy commander, he is a member of an old Dutch family long settled in the New York area. His first name is a family tradition, given to the eldest son of the family for more than 11 generations. He grew up in Ridgefield, New Jersey, on Van Dien Avenue, named for his family.
With his big break on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, he has appeared in movies such as Tarzan and the Lost City, Starship Troopers and Sleepy Hollow.
He has been described as a "perfect life-sized Ken doll."
He married actress Catherine Oxenberg in May 1999, and is the father of three daughters, one son, and one stepdaughter. His mother-in-law is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.