American actor Lorenzo Fernando Lamas was born on January 20, 1958. In the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), he played Lance Cumson, the reckless grandson of Angela Channing, who was portrayed by Jane Wyman.
For this portrayal, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Did Lorenzo Lamas wear a wig in Renegade?
Lamas started to carve out a niche for himself as an action hero, demonstrating his martial-arts prowess by appearing in movies like the Snake Eater trilogy (1989–1992), Bounty Tracker (1993), Gladiator Cop (1995), Terminal Justice (1996), and many other like low-budget action-pictures.
Lamas had the opportunity to indulge his passion for Harley-Davidson motorbikes and martial arts while starring as Reno Raines, a wrongly convicted police officer, in the syndicated series Renegade from 1992 to 1997.
The program went from first-run syndication to the USA Network during its fifth and final season, and it was broadcast in more than 100 nations.
Lamas’ hair was long (beyond his shoulders) during this time; as a result, when he had it cut short after Renegade’s fourth season, he had to wear a long-haired wig for the show’s fifth and final season of filming.
The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera welcomed Lamas as Hector Ramirez in 2004, and he stayed on the program until 2006.