Lorenzo Lamas (born on
January 20,
1958 in
Santa Monica, California) is an
American actor. He is also known as
Lorenzo Lamas y de Santos (or
Lorenzo de Santos Lamas), based on his
Argentine father's full name,
Fernando Alvaro Lamas y de Santos.
Lamas is known for playing Lance Cumson on the popular 1980s
soap opera Falcon Crest, Reno Raines on the 1990s
crime drama Renegade, and
Hector Ramirez on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and The Beautiful. More recently, Lamas also served as a judge on ABC television's short-lived reality show
Are You Hot?.
Early life
Lamas is the son of the late
Argentine actor
Fernando Lamas and Norwegian-American actress,
Arlene Dahl. He was brought up in
Pacific Palisades,
California and moved to
New York City in 1971, when he was 13 years old. He graduated from the
Admiral Farragut Academy in
Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975. He went back home to Beverly Hills, CA to rejoin his family.
Acting career
Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. He had a supporting role in the 1978 hit movie version of
Grease.
