Actor Casper Robert Van Dien Jr. was born in the United States on December 18, 1968.
His most well-known performance was as Johnny Rico, the protagonist of the science fiction action movie Starship Troopers from 1997.
Van Dien played King Tal in Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus, the second installment of the 1982 cult film The Beastmaster, which was released in 1996. James Dean: Race with Destiny, a 1997 biopic about James Dean, also stars Van Dien. Soon after, he was cast as Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven’s science fiction action movie Starship Troopers, which was released in 1997.
Following the success of Starship Troopers, he was cast as Tarzan in Tarzan and the Lost City (1998). Van Dien next portrayed Brom von Brunt in Tim Burton’s 1999 adaptation of the well-known Washington Irving story Sleepy Hollow.
Where did Casper Van Dien go to college and high school? Did Casper Van Dien go to film school?
When Van Dien was older, his family relocated to Florida, where he enrolled in the Admiral Farragut Academy’s St. Petersburg branch and graduated third in command. Van Dien attended Florida State University in Tallahassee after finishing high school and was a member of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon there.
