Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Dean Cain

Superman certainly didn't think of his own biological father as a hero. "He's not the kind of man I want to be," he said of his dad, "He was an unfaithful husband and not much of a father." Roger Tanaka, a U.S. serviceman, is his biological father. His mother, actress Sharon Thomas, was later able to remarry director Christopher Cain, who adopted the young star. Cain has never met his DNA father.

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