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Lance Gross

Acting Born Jul 8, 1981 Oakland, California, USA 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Grey's Anatomy

as Ethan Boyd

Hawaii Five-0

as Lincoln Cole

MacGyver

as Billy Colton

Star

as Maurice

Full filmography

  • Grey's Anatomy (2005) as Ethan Boyd
  • Hawaii Five-0 (2010) as Lincoln Cole
  • MacGyver (2016) as Billy Colton
  • Sleepy Hollow (2013) as Daniel Reynolds
  • Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007) as Calvin Payne
  • Star (2016) as Maurice
  • The Finder (2012) as Frank Haywood
  • A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019) as Jason Washington
  • Too Old to Die Young (2019) as Larry
  • Tales (2017) as Reggie
  • Crisis (2014) as Marcus Finley
  • Our Kind of People (2021) as Tyrique Freeman
  • Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) as Brice
  • The Bobby Brown Story (2018) as Steve Sealy
  • Our Family Wedding (2010) as Marcus Boyd
  • Meet the Browns (2008) as Michael Brown
  • Steel Magnolias (2012) as Sammy
  • Dutch (2021) as Benard 'dutch' James
  • Erax (2022)
  • Dutch II: Angel's Revenge (2024) as Dutch
  • Snatched (2024)
  • The Last Fall (2012) as Kyle Bishop
  • Sugar Baby (2025) as Anthony
  • Deuces (2017) as Jason