Lance 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.

Known For

Our Family Wedding

Meet the Browns

Erax

Call Her King

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Unthinkably Good Things

Steel Magnolias

The Last Fall

Dutch II: Angel's Revenge

Filmography

2025 Sugar Baby

as Anthony

2025 Robin Roberts Presents: I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story

as Linwood Simon

2024 Snatched

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

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