Dean Erickson (born December 5, 1958, Maine) is an actor, writer, and the founder and CEO of Bionic Capital LLC, a registered investment advisory firm.
He is best known for playing Gabriel Knight in The Beast Within and Eric, Daphne's love interest and Café Nervosa waiter, in Season 1 of Frasier.
After graduating from Brown University, he worked on Wall Street as an options trader and risk arbitrageur.
His best known role may be starring as Gabriel Knight in the award-winning[2] FMV video game The Beast Within.
[4] He enjoyed the role and later said that if the Gabriel Knight series had continued using live action FMV, he would have done more.