Favorite Birthday Guy #2

 Lorenzo Lamas
From:  Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 Blast From The Past: Lorenzo Lamas from The Bold and the Beautiful and Falcon Crest turns 56 today.

 Lorenzo Lamas-Craig (born January 20, 1958) is an American actor. Lamas-Craig is known for playing Lance Cumson on the popular 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest, Reno Raines on the 1990s crime drama Renegade, and Hector Ramirez on the daytime soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful. Lamas appeared in reality television, served as a judge on ABC television's short-lived Are You Hot? and starred in his own reality show, Leave it to Lamas, a series about his real-life family.

 Lamas-Craig was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and Norwegian-American actress Arlene Dahl. He is the stepson of swimming film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lorenzo was 11 years old. Williams was also the best friend of Jane Wyman, who would later play along with Lamas-Craig on Falcon Crest. Lamas-Craig was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971, when he was 13 years old. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975.

 When Lamas moved to New York at 13 years old, he suffered from weight problems. In 1979, he took up taekwondo and karate and started to exercise. He has won countless black belts and showed his skills in the series Renegade.

 Lamas' first marriage was to Victoria Hilbert from 1981 to 1982.

His second marriage was to Michele Smith in 1983, the couple had two children together: son Alvaro Joshua "A. J." (b. 1983) and daughter Shayne (b. 1985). He and Smith split in 1985.

Lamas fathered daughter Paton Lee (b. 1988) with actress Daphne Ashbrook.

His third marriage was to Kathleen Kinmont (daughter of his Falcon Crest co-star Abby Dalton) in 1989; they divorced in 1993.

 with Heather Locklear

 Lamas married his fourth wife, Playmate of the Month Shauna Sand, in 1996. Lamas and Sand have three daughters: Alexandra Lynne (b. 1997), Victoria (b. 1999), and Isabella Lorenza (b. 2001). Lamas and Sand divorced in 2002.

After his marriage to Sand, Lamas was briefly engaged to Playmate of the Month Barbara Moore, but the marriage was later called off.

 After just five months of dating, Lamas got married for the fifth time to Shawna Craig — who is younger than his eldest daughter — in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on April 30, 2011. His daughter, Shayne, attended the wedding.  He has told reporters that he will go publicly as Lorenzo Lamas-Craig. His manager, Don Gibble, tells E! News, "He's always thinking outside the box so he decided to become the first celebrity to take his wife's last name." The other reason was because his last wife, former Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand, kept the Lamas name and is legally Shauna Lamas. "His new wife didn't want to be called Shawna Lamas for obvious reasons," explained Gibble.

On January 14, 2013, Lamas told the Minnesota-based KQRS Morning Show that his father, actor Fernando Lamas, could have done Chrysler Cordoba commercials and star in Fantasy Island instead of Ricardo Montalbán, but he had an aversion to doing commercials and a television series. Lamas revealed that afterwards Terri Traen of the KQRS Morning Show confused Lamas' father with Montalbán.

 His stepmother, Esther Williams, died on June 6, 2013, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. Lamas stated on Twitter: "The best swim teacher and soul mom RIP."