Jack Coleman Biography: Jack Coleman was born on February 21, 1958 in Easton, Pennsylvania. He grew up with six older siblings and was a student of Duke University. After graduating from the said university, he trained to be an actor at the National Theater Institute and became a significant figure in television when he joined the cast of the soap opera, Days of Our Lives, where he gave life to the character "Jack Kositchek," and gave life to one of the small screens first homosexual characters, "Steven Carrington," on the television series, Dynasty. His other television credits include Nightmare Café, Kingdom Hospital, CSI: Miami, Nip/ Tuck, Without a Trace and Entourage. His work on the play, Stand-Up Tragedy earned him a nomination from the Mark Taper Forum, while his work on another play, Bouncers, won him a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Presently, Coleman can be seen starring in the television series, Heroes. Mr. Bennet is played by Jack Coleman in the television series, Heroes. Mr. Bennett, who also goes by the alias, Horn-Rimmed Glasses, is the adoptive father of cheerleader, Claire Bennet. Everybody knows him as a businessman who constantly needs to go on several work-related trips, but in actuality, Mr. Bennet spends most of his time away from home studying the mysterious breakout of superhumans in society, one of which happens to be Claire.