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Lance Gross

Lance Gross

Birthday: 1981-07-08 | Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Sugar Baby

as    Anthony

2025
2024
Dutch II: Angel's Revenge

as    Dutch

2023
Call Her King

as    Gabriel aka Black Caesar

2022
Unthinkably Good Things

as    Andre

2021
Dutch

as    Benard 'dutch' James

2021
Our Kind of People

as    Tyrique Freeman

2018
The Bobby Brown Story

as    Steve Sealy

2017
Deuces

as    Jason

2014
Crisis

as    Marcus Finley

2013
Say Yes

as    Him

2012
The Last Fall

as    Kyle Bishop

2012
Steel Magnolias

as    Sammy

2010
Our Family Wedding

as    Marcus Boyd

2008
Meet the Browns

as    Michael Brown