Lorenzo Lamas from ‘Falcon Crest’: Age, height, family, children, net worth
You could say Lorenzo Lamas was always destined to become an actor. His parents worked in the industry and it didnt take long before he entered it himself.
Lamas has starred in classics such as the television series Falcon Crest and the legendary film Grease. Still to this day the California native is working as an actor and at 65 he looks terrific!
However Lamass life has had its ups and downs and hes gone through some rather tough times. Heres all you need to know about Lorenzo and the many struggles hes overcome.
One was getting over the fact that his son had an affair with his exwife.
Even as a young kid Lorenzo Lamass stars had aligned where acting was concerned.
Born Lorenzo Fernando Lamas on January 20 1958 in Santa Monica California he was raised by his mother Arlene Dahl an American actress of Norwegian descent and his father Fernando Lamas an Argentinian who worked as an actor and director.
Lorenzo Lamas early life
Lorenzo grew up in the fashionable area of Pacific Palisades California. At age two his parents divorced and eight years later he moved to New York with his father.
Lorenzo has often drawn upon the fact that his family comes from different parts of the world. He once starred as Dracula in a Halloween production of the famous Bram Stoker novel and had no problem at all adopting a different accent.
I grew up with a man who had a voice like Dracula and every other biggerthanlife character you could ever think of in my father he told the New York Times in 2007. I take a little bit from him to do the accent. Ive also done four movies in Bulgaria.
While Lorenzo was transitioning from a kid into a young man his father had a pretty wild lifestyle. According to Lorenzo his father had been with every woman. Yet as a child he adored him.
I idolized my father especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room. Hed done everything seen everything he told Fox. Its pretty heady stuff to grow up with.
He was Latin he was very judgmental he thought a womans place was in the kitchen. He just happened to marry a woman who was a top ten box office star of the 50s and she retired to serve him!
First work in acting
Lorenzos father married actress Esther Williams in 1969 a year after their move to The Big Apple and life for Lorenzo got tough at times. For example when Esthers children visited Lorenzo wasnt even allowed to sleep in the house!
He was many things but he was also fair so if he wasnt going to allow another mans children in his house then he couldnt allow me in the house he recalled.
So my roommate was a Rolls Royce. I had a key that let me in the backdoor where there was a guest bathroom. But I came from military school so living in a garage in Beverly Hills was plush to me. I had shared a urinal with 30 guys for the last four years. Looking back I know thats not normal. I know that I would never do that to my kids. I run my three teenage daughters around like a chauffeur.
Lorenzo Lamas attended private school and graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in 1975. Instead of staying on the East Coast he decided to leave for his home state of California.
Though his father could be a strict man he always encouraged his son to follow his dreams and backed him wholeheartedly in pursuing his dreams of becoming an actor. Lorenzo enrolled