Misplaced Pages

Lorenzo Lamas

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 70.232.141.60 (talk) at 19:19, 31 July 2008. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 19:19, 31 July 2008 by 70.232.141.60 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Lorenzo Lamas
Lorenzo Lamas at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989.
BornLorenzo y de Santos Lamas
Years active1976 ─ present
Websitehttp://www.lorenzo-lamas.com
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Lorenzo Lamas" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Lorenzo Lamas (born on January 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television and film actor, television personality and martial artist. Lamas is primarily known for playing villains. 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. 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 firefighter Hector Ramirez on The Bold and The Beautiful. More recently, Lamas also served as a judge on ABC television's short-lived reality showAre 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 when he was 13 years old, in 1971. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975 and then returned to Southern California.

According to legend, Lamas approached his mother as a child and told her, "Mother, I want to be a star..." He then corrected himself, "...I mean, an actor." She smiled at him and said, "I heard you the first time."

Acting career

Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. In 1978's Grease, he played the "dumb jock" that Sandy goes out with to make John Travolta's character, Danny, jealous.

In 1980, he auditioned for and won the role of Angela Channing's playboy grandson and henchman, Lance Cumson, on the pilot of an series entitled The Vintage Years. The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time soap, Falcon Crest. He had an unusual connection to series matriarch Jane Wyman, having been a 3 month old infant at the time his father, Fernando Lamas, guest-starred on Wyman's show 23 years prior. During his Falcon Crest days, Lamas actually had a lot of interaction with Wyman, and even spent a lot of time with her away from the set. For a time, after Wyman became ill, he was also her caregiver. He received much of his screen-time in the ninth and final season, despite Wyman's medical leave from the show. During his stint on Falcon Crest, Lamas was nominated for two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Golden Globe. Lamas was the only actor to appear in all 227 episodes of the series. After the series ended, Lamas did not keep in touch with his former mentor. She dies in September of 2007.

In 1984, Lamas was nominated for Worst Actor at the Golden Raspberry Awards for his performance in the movie Body Rock. Lamas also performed a song on the soundtrack for this movie, and the track, "Fools Like Me" became his only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In 1992, two years after Falcon Crest ended, Lamas played the role of the falsely accused cop Reno Raines in the syndicated series, Renegade. Like his first show, Falcon Crest, the show was also an instant success. The series was seen in over 100 countries, and during the final season, it moved from first-run syndication to the USA Network, with ever increasing ratings. The show ended in 1997 after a run of five seasons.

From February 2004 until February 2007 Lamas played the role of Hector Ramirez on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

His son, A.J. Lamas, continuing the family acting tradition, starred as Rafael Ortega on As the World Turns from October 2004 to February 2005, when the role was recast.

In August 2007, Lorenzo starred as the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. That fall, he performed at Kean University Premiere Stages in Union, NJ in the title role in Steven Dietz's Dracula. Lamas is scheduled to appear as El Gallo in The Fantasticks at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas from June 3 - 8, 2008.

Lamas began appearing in the Zaxby's restaurant chain television advertisements in May 2008.

Lamas is an accomplished martial artist, having studied karate and taekwondo since 1979 and acquired a number of black belts.

Personal life

Lamas has been married four times. His first marriage was to Victoria Hilbert from 1981-82. His next marriage was to Michele Smith in 1983, resulting in two children: son A.J. Lamas, and daughter Shayne. Shayne can be seen on General Hospital in flashback scenes as a young Carly Corinthos. She also also appeared in the MTV reality show Twentyfourseven. She is perhaps best known as the extremely short-lived fiancee of the 2008 version of The Bachelor. Lamas and Smith split in 1985. He married Kathleen Kinmont (Kinmont was the daughter of his Falcon Crest costar Abby Dalton) in 1989; they were divorced in 1993. Lamas married his fourth wife, Playmate of the Month Shauna Sand, in 1996. Lamas and Sand have three daughters: Alexandra Lynne Lamas (b. November 22, 1997), Victoria Lamas (b. April 24, 1999), and Isabella Lorenza Lamas (b. February 2, 2001). Lamas divorced Sand in 2002.

Lamas fathered daughter Paton Lee with Daphne Ashbrook, to whom he was not married. He was engaged to Playmate of the Month Barbara Moore, but Lamas suddenly called off the wedding under questionable circumstances (he reportedly discovered his fiancée at her bachelorette party in the company of a male stripper). He was romantically linked to The Bold and the Beautiful co-star Hunter Tylo in 2006, after splitting with musician Debbie Gibson.

Lamas has raced automobiles in the IMSA and Skip Barber Formula Dodge Series racing series. Lorenzo Lamas himself drove a Ford convertible Thunderbird in all his races. He also holds a commercial pilot's license.

He is a co-chair on several children’s charities, including Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Filmography

Template:Multicol

Template:Multicol-break

Template:Multicol-end

Television work

References

  1. "International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions". Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  2. "Lamas Wedding Blows Up". Page Six. 2005-07-18. Archived from the original on 200. Retrieved 2008-01-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
  3. http://www.deborah-gibson.com/press/debstarb.jpg

External links

{{subst:#if:Lamas, Lorenzo|}} [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:1958}} 

|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:LIVING}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
| #default = 1958 births

}}]] {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:LIVING}} 

|| LIVING  = 
| MISSING  = 
| UNKNOWN  = 
| #default =

}}

Categories: