DIRK BENEDICT | 76

Remember the character Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film? It was portrayed by no other than Dirk Benedict. Benedict was born to parents, accountant Priscilla Mella and lawyer George Edward Niewoehner. But he didn’t want to follow the corporate careers of his parents and entered show business instead.He wanted to pursue his career in acting because this was his dream ever since he was a child. He starred in numerous films and TV shows and has not yet retired from acting. His most recent film appearance was in the 2019 movie Space Ninjas as Jack Strange.

Aside from acting, he is also a well-known author who wrote the And Then We Went Fishing and Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy. Benedict is a prostate cancer survivor. He said that the tumor is cancerous, so he decided to take full rest and focus on the doctor’s advice. It was known that he rejected conventional medicine and followed a macrobiotic diet for his treatment instead.