Dick has been a friend of actor Anthony Rapp since childhood. While in high school, he tended to use his surname as a joke and one day, he dressed in a homemade superhero costume and presented himself at school as 'Super Dick'. He graduated from Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois in 1984.
He was elected homecoming king his senior year in 1983. Dick appeared in numerous theater productions during his high school year. He attended Lassiter High School, which was being temporarily housed at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Cobb County, Georgia. Īs a child, he spent time living with his family in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, and Yugoslavia before moving to Chicago in 1979. He was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick, and named Andrew Roane Dick. Dick was born on December 21, 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina, as Andrew Thomlinson.