Lorenzo Lamas was born on January 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California, and is an American actor. Lorenzo is known for playing Lance Cumson on the popular 1980s soap Falcon Crest, Reno Raines on the 1990s drama Renegade, and Hector Ramirez on the soap The Bold and The Beautiful. More recently, Lorenzo also served as a judge on ABC television's reality show Are You Hot?. Lorenzo first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role. He had a supporting role in the 1978 hit movie Grease. In 1980, he won the role of Jane Wyman's playboy grandson, Lance Cumson, for the pilot of a new series entitled The Vintage Years. The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest. Lorenzo is an accomplished martial artist, having studied karate and taekwondo since 1979 and acquired a number of black belts