Lance Gross
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.
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- 2024 · Snatched as
- 2024 · Dutch II: Angel's Revenge as Dutch
- 2023 · Call Her King as Gabriel aka Black Caesar
- 2022 · Unthinkably Good Things as Andre
- 2022 · Erax as
- 2021 · Our Kind of People as Tyrique Freeman
- 2021 · Dutch as Benard 'dutch' James
- 2019 · A Black Lady Sketch Show as Jason Washington
- 2019 · Too Old to Die Young as Larry
- 2018 · The Bobby Brown Story as Steve Sealy
- 2017 · When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story as Dino
- 2017 · Tales as Reggie
- 2017 · Deuces as Jason
- 2016 · Star as Maurice
- 2016 · MacGyver as Billy Colton
- 2014 · Crisis as Marcus Finley
- 2013 · Sleepy Hollow as Daniel Reynolds
- 2013 · Say Yes as Him
- 2013 · Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor as Brice
- 2012 · Steel Magnolias as Sammy
- 2012 · The Last Fall as
- 2012 · The Finder as Frank Haywood
- 2010 · Hawaii Five-0 as Lincoln Cole
- 2010 · Our Family Wedding as Marcus Boyd
- 2008 · Meet the Browns as Michael Brown
- 2007 · House of Payne as Calvin Payne
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Ethan Boyd