Lorenzo Lamas

About Lorenzo Lamas

Lorenzo Lamas (born on January 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television and film actor, television personality and martial artist, primarily on soap operas, movies and television, playing mostly villainous roles, primarily of Mediterranean and Norwegian descent. He is also sometimes called Lorenzo Lamas y de Santos (or Lorenzo de Santos Lamas), based on his Argentine father's full name, Fernando Alvaro Lamas y de Santos. The naturally brown-headed Lamas is best-known for playing the role of Jane Wyman's irresponsible grandson, Lance Cumson, on the popular 1980s soap opera, Falcon Crest, the falsely accused cop, Reno Raines, the main character on the 1990s crime drama, Renegade, and as firefighter Hector Ramirez on The Bold and The Beautiful. He also served as judge on Are You Hot?.

Lamas is the son of the late Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and U.S.-born actress of Norwegian descent, Arlene Dahl. He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California and moved to New York City when he was 13 years old, around 1971. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in 1975, in Pine Beach, New Jersey, and then returned to Southern California. Lamas grew to the height of 1.85 m (6 feet, 1 inch) tall.

A moment in Lamas's life which has since become famous is when he approached his mother as a child and told her, "Mother, I want to be a star..." Then he corrected himself, "...I mean, an actor." She smiled at him and said, "I heard you the first time."