Hey Ladies, Check Out This Arcadia Hunk

Anyone who regularly goes to a gym, health club, fitness center or whatever you call it will know what I'm talking about. There’s always at least one guy there who seems to have it all – the perfect build, classic good looks and women always hanging around him.

At , formerly Arcadia All-Pro, that guy is Byron Quiros, who is 40 but looks younger. He attributes that to his lifestyle and his genetics.

Yeah, he’s a chick magnet, no question about that. But it’s more than simply his looks and the fact that he is single. Byron is also a dance fitness instructor at the gym, and the women who take his classes rave about him.

Byron has been at Arcadia Fitness since 2005, and also works as a private trainer at a studio in Glendale.

Outside the Arcadia Fitness exercise room where his outgoing and energetic approach motivates his students, Byron is basically a quiet guy. He’s sort of two different people, which makes sense because he is also an actor. It’s a common trait among actors.

Two of his students, Lorraine Tjahjadi and Marilyn Lim, came with him to Arcadia Fitness. His fan club there has literally grown in leaps and bounds, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. I’m one of the envious older male members of Arcadia Fitness.

Observing from afar, I always felt his life would probably make for an interesting story.

About a month ago, there was a film crew at the gym doing a video on Byron, and that piqued my interest even more. The crew was there to film a dance fitness demo reel for Byron. Click to view the video. It includes testimonies from women who take his classes.

After telling Byron about Patch.com and setting up an interview, I learned I was right – his life is quite interesting.

He is a native of Los Angeles, but his parents came from Costa Rica and he speaks fluent Spanish. He grew up in Orange County and, being athletic, played sports at Mater Dei High in Santa Ana.

He says his best sport was football. He was a running back. But he went to UC Irvine, which does not have a football team.

“That’s one reason I got into dance,” he said. “I was no longer involved in sports, so dance became my sport. Also my mother (Nuria) is a great salsa dancer.”

And while at UC Irvine, Byron's second love became theater arts. And his aspiring acting career got a boost in 1991 when he was the first runner-up in a Mr. Latin of California competition.

Since then, his list of acting credits in film, TV and theater has grown into an impressive one. It includes guest appearances on TV series such as “Jag,” “CSI: Miami,” and “Medium.” He also had a starring role in the 2005 feature film “Coronado.”

He made his stage debut in an off-Broadway New York play in 1995. He earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Best Actor Award for his role in “Spoon River Anthology” in 1999. He got a Critics’ Circle honorable mention for “Short Eyes” in 2000. In that production, he played Paco, a gay Puerto Rican prisoner. He was also a member of the cast of the 2003 Tony Award-winning baseball play, “Take Me Out,” a Geffen Playhouse production at the Brentwood Theater. 

Since 2005, he has had his own production company, Stilleto Red Studios.

As a man, I think it is unfair there are other men like Byron who are gifted with both talent and looks. But Byron takes it all in stride.

When I asked him if he is an eligible bachelor, Byron laughed. “There’s that infamous question," he said. "Yes, I am eligible but I try to keep my work and my personal life separate.”