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Lance Gross

Actor

Lance Gross

Born July 8, 1981 in Oakland, California, USA17 films

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.

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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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Steel Magnolias posterFirst watchSteel Magnolias20126.9as SammyIn an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor poster6.7Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor2013Meet the Browns poster6.7Meet the Browns2008Our Family Wedding poster5.6Our Family Wedding2010

Filmography

17 films as actor
  1. 2025Dutch III: International GangsterDutch
  2. 2025Sugar BabyAnthony
  3. 2025Robin Roberts Presents: I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor StoryLinwood Simon
  4. 2024SnatchedBryon
  5. 2024Dutch II: Angel's RevengeDutch
  6. 2023Call Her KingGabriel aka Black Caesar
  7. 2022Unthinkably Good ThingsAndre
  8. 2022Erax
  9. 2021DutchBenard 'dutch' James
  10. 2017When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely StoryDino
  11. 2017DeucesJason
  12. 2013Say YesHim
  13. 2013Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage CounselorBrice
  14. 2012Steel MagnoliasSammy
  15. 2012The Last FallKyle Bishop
  16. 2010Our Family WeddingMarcus Boyd
  17. 2008Meet the BrownsMichael Brown