Lance Gross

Lance Gross

  • Birthday: 1981-07-08
  • Place of birth: Oakland, California, USA
  • Also know as: Lance Darnell Gross

Biography

Lance Darnell Gross (born July 8, 1981) is an American actor, producer and photographer. He's best known for his roles as Calvin Payne on TBS' House of Payne, Tyrique Freeman on Fox's Our Kind of People, Maurice Jetter on Fox’s Star, Billy Colton on the CBS remake of MacGyver, Marcus Finley on the NBC drama Crisis, Daniel Reynolds on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, Brice in the Tyler Perry film Temptation, Sammy in the Lifetime remake of Steel Magnolias, Marcus Boyd in the movie Our Family Wedding alongside America Ferreira, and Michael Brown in Meet the Browns. He is the first actor to win four NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. Gross starred in TV One’s “When Love Kills: The Felicia Blakely Story” directed by Tasha Smith, the BET anthology series “Tales: Trap Queen” directed by Benny Boom, and BET’s “The Bobby Brown Story.” He is also the creator, producer and star of the MACRO digital series “I Turned My Camera On” on Essence, which combined his love of photography with a series of celebrity interviews. The series featured Michael B. Jordan, Omari Hardwick and Kelly Rowland, among others.

Filmography

Say Yes

2013

As Him

Meet the Browns

2008

As Michael Brown

Dutch

2021

As Benard 'dutch' James

Erax

2022

As

Our Family Wedding

2010

As Marcus Boyd

Call Her King

2023

As Gabriel aka Black Caesar

Deuces

2017

As Jason

Steel Magnolias

2012

As Sammy

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