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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
Our Family Wedding
Meet the Browns
Meet the Browns
Erax
Erax
Call Her King
Call Her King
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Unthinkably Good Things
Unthinkably Good Things
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
The Last Fall
The Last Fall
Dutch II: Angel's Revenge
Dutch II: Angel's Revenge

Filmography

2025 Dutch III: International Gangster
as Dutch
2025 Sugar Baby
as Anthony
2025 Robin Roberts Presents: I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story
as Linwood Simon
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