Biography of Lorenzo Lamas (a.k.a.: Lorenzo Fernando Lamas)

Lorenzo Fernando Lamas is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Lance Cumson. The irresponsible grandson of Angela Channing played by Jane Wyman in the soap opera Falcon Crest. For which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor Series Miniseries or Television Film.

Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series Renegade, and Hector Ramirez in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful .

He served as a judge on ABC television's Are You Hot?, and starred in his own reality show, Leave It to Lamas, a series about his real-life family.

Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and Norwegian American actress Arlene Dahl. He is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lamas was 11 years old. Both Williams and Dahl were best friends of actress Jane Wyman , and would later work alongside Lamas on Falcon Crest. He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971. In 1979, he took up Taekwondo and Karate, earning black belts. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975.

Longing to be an actor since the age of five, Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. As a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford, Lamas secured a non-speaking role as a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, in which he dyed his hair blond. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV series including Switch, Sword of Justice, Dear Detective, Secrets of Midland Heights, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hotel.