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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.
After serving in Korea, he was later assigned to Camp Washington, where he was promoted to the rank of major. He met Captain Adeline Kane, in charge of training young soldiers in new combat techniques, anticipating brewing problems in Vietnam. Kane was surprised at how skilled Slade was and how quickly he adapted to modern warfare conventions. She immediately fell in love with him and realized that he was without a doubt the most capable combatant she had ever encountered. She offered to train Slade in particular in guerrilla warfare. In less than a year, Slade dominated all forms of struggle presented to him and was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Six months later, Adeline and he were married and she became pregnant with her first child. The war in Vietnam started to escalate and Slade was sent abroad. In the war, his unit massacred a village, an event that made him sick. He was also rescued by SAS member Wintergreen, to whom he would later return the favor. Chosen for a secret experiment, the Army gave him enhanced physical powers in an attempt to create metahuman super soldiers for the US military.
