Lance Gross
Lance Gross was born on July 8, 1981 in Oakland, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for House of Payne (2006), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) and Sleepy Hollow (2013). He has been married to Rebecca Jefferson since May 23, 2015. They have two children.
Lance Guest
Lance Guest's family lived on an 11 acre prune ranch in the then-rural Saratoga, Ca for most of the 1950's. More than 10 years younger than his boomer siblings, Lance was born in 1960, when his father, a Navy fighter pilot, moved the family to a larger house with running water. At a young age, he was memorizing the comedy records of Bill Cosby, Stan Freberg, Allan Sherman, and Mel Brooks, as well as all the early 60's Bob Dylan records. He learned to play guitar at age 10, and was performing plays in junior high school. At 15, his friend Michael Gurley asked him to join his garage band, Stillwater, for their first and only gig in the summer of 1975. He was cast in plays all throughout high school, his first being Nathan Detroit, and knowing nothing of New York, other than TV detectives, performed the entire role as Mel Brooks. He then trained in the summers at an intensive workshop created by former members of ACT in San Francisco. Planning to attend ACT and work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, his acting teacher convinced him to attend college at UCLA instead. After two years of back to back college theatre, and garnering the school's Shakespeare award in 1980, Guest, upon discovering that they made films and TV shows in LA, made a plan to acquire an agent by his senior year, and moved out of the dorm and into a 2 bedroom apartment with 5 other roommates, including fellow students and future screenwriters Ed Solomon and Shane Black. He worked two part time jobs, attended UCLA, and began rehearsals for " Transgressor", an original play developed the previous year at school. Within weeks he had attended his first open call for the TV show "Fame", and though not initially cast, received a call from an agent the next day inviting him to come in for a meeting. Guest was then sent out on auditions so much over the next few months that he had to quit UCLA by the end of fall term to pursue acting full time. Within the next year, he had a recurring role on "Lou Grant", a pilot, 2 screen tests, an after school special, some episodic TV, and a role opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the horror cult classic "Halloween 2". The Writer/producer of Halloween 2, John Carpenter, was going over the film before it's release and Carpenter's friend, Nick Castle, took note of the young actor, and remembered him for his current project in development, "Centauri's Recruit", later to be called. "The Last Starfighter". More television movies, recurring roles (St. Elsewhere) and small film roles followed, and Guest visited NYC for the first time. He came back to LA , inspired by the theater, and ready to move back east, when he was called in by Castle for what became "The Last Starfighter". Principal photography was completed in the spring of 1983, a couple months shy of his 23rd birthday. He was then cast as the protagonist in "The Roommate", an American Playhouse production, also starring Barry Miller and John Cameron Mitchell, based on a John Updike short story, which later won the grand prize at the LA Film Festival (1985). After wrapping "The Roommate", Guest escaped to New York and lived there for the first half of 1984 seeking theatre roles. He was working at the Santa Fe Festival theatre when The Last Starfighter opened in July of 1984. He was then cast in a TV drunk driving cautionary tale with Val Kilmer, Mare Winningham, and Michele Pfeiffer. Back in LA, he turned down a couple of subsequent offers in favor of a $3MIL indie about bluegrass musicians in the Blue Ridge mountains. When that project fell apart, he starred in another TV movie,"My Father, My Rival" for HBO, alongside Wendy Crewson. He was told that Starfighter reportedly made no money on it's initial release, so he returned to the theatre, this time in LA for the West coast premiere of Chris Durang's "Baby With the Bathwater" with Jennifer Tilly, which ran for 5 months at the Coronet Theatre. More regional theatre over the next year, "Key Exchange" with Anthony Edwards and Jennifer Beals, and "Look Homeward Angel" at Playmakers Rep in NC. Later that year he was offered the part of Michael Brody in 1987's "Jaws: The Revenge." with Michael Caine. Wrapping "Jaws" in July, he was then cast in what he calls his favorite film, "The Wizard of Loneliness", a small WWII era piece about a 12 year old growing up in Vermont, with Lukas Haas, Lea Thompson, Dylan Baker and the late John Randolph. Over the next decade, it was mostly TV, co-starring with Robert Loggia as FBI agents in the political thriller miniseries "Favorite Son", a year as a bitter, ex-con photojournalist in "Knot's Landing", recurring on "Life Goes On" as an environmental metal-sculptor and street musician, McGoverns campaign manager on the '72 election episode of " The Wonder Years", a computer geek, a fireman, a high school teacher, another sculptor, an enviro-terrorist in "The X-Files", and back to the independent film "Plan B" with Jon Cryer, playing a regular-guy pilot who tries with his wife to conceive a child. Guest has continued to work in LA small theatre developing strictly original works, as well as touring for two and a half years('97-2000) with the satirical folk-group The Foremen, playing guitar and banjo. He also began planting vineyards in different locations in Northern California, and making wine. A handful of indie films: a wrongfully defrocked priest in "The Least of These", a gitmo-type interrogator in "Shadowbox", a hippie political adviser in "Mach 2 ", a MASH type ER doctor in "21 and a Wake-Up" with Amy Acker, a recurring role as a no-nonsense Navy pilot on JAG, a couple of Disney Channel movies: one as wacky alien Cosmo Cola in "Stepsister from Planet Weird", and chimp-adopting primatologist Hugo Archibald in "The Jenny Project", episodic roles on" Becker", "NYPD Blue"('05),"House",('06) TV movie now called "Alibi", starring Famke Jahnsen ('07) and a cynical journalist on "Jericho".('07) After the birth of his, and partner Danna Hyams' son Jack in 2004, Guest started preliminary readings and workshops for a new musical created by Floyd Mutrux about an historic 1956 reunion at Sun Records in Memphis of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Based on the actual jam session these four attended, and hosted by legendary producer Sam Phillips, "Million Dollar Quartet" had two full tryout productions in Daytona Beach('06) and Issaquah, Wa. ('07) before moving to Chicago in 2008, where it still is running. The original production then moved to The Nederlander Theater on Broadway in March of 2010 and ran for 15 months (over 500 performances) before moving to the New World Stages Off-Broadway where it played for almost another year, closing in June of 2012. Guest created the role of Johnny Cash and has been in all productions since it's inception excluding London and now Las Vegas, choosing to stay in NY with his family rather than go out on the tour, which is set for it's third incarnation. The unique aspect of this play is that all the actors play their own instruments; they ARE the orchestra, and the show features blockbuster renditions of rockabilly and traditional hits, covered by the four main characters. It also tells the story of Sam Phillips' relationship to all the artists, and his particular contribution to pop culture and history in general. Guest received great reviews in particular as Cash, as well as a Distinguished Performance Award Nomination by the Drama League of New York. The show was also nominated for Best Musical in 2010. Guest completed filming indie thriller "Late Phases" in June 2013.
Lance Hansman
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Lance Hardwood
Lance Hart
Lucy Hart began performing in 2007 as "Lance Hart." She transitioned to female in August of 2021 and now goes by "Lucy Hart." She is a Director, Producer and Actress. She serves on the Board of both the Free Speech Coalition and PASS. She owns an independent adult film network called Pervout.
Lance Haverda
Lance Haverda is an actor, known for The Curse of Babylon (2011) and Heaven's War (2018).
Lance Henriksen
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope. He played "Awful Knoffel" in the TNT original movie Evel Knievel (2004), directed by John Badham and executive produced by Mel Gibson. Henriksen portrayed "Awful Knoffel" in this project based on the life of the famed daredevil, played by George Eads. Henriksen starred for three seasons (1996-1999) on Millennium (1996), Fox-TV's critically acclaimed series created by Chris Carter (The X Files (1993)). His performance as Frank Black, a retired FBI agent who has the ability to get inside the minds of killers, landed him three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for "Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and a People's Choice Award nomination for "Favorite New TV Male Star". Henriksen was born in New York City. His mother, Margueritte, was a waitress, dance instructor, and model. His father, James Marin Henriksen, who was from Tønsberg, Norway, was a boxer and merchant sailor. Henriksen studied at the Actors Studio and began his career off-Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "Three Plays of the Sea." One of his first film appearances was as an FBI agent in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), followed by parts in Lumet's Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981). He then appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) with Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, Damien: Omen II (1978) and in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played Mercury astronaut Capt. Wally Schirra. James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981), then used him again in The Terminator (1984) and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens (1986). Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead (1995). Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998). In addition to his abilities as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter. His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today. He resides in Southern California with his wife Jane and their five-year-old daughter Sage.
Lance Hickerson
Lance Holloway
Lance Holloway is an actor and writer, known for Grown-ish (2018), Blindspotting (2021) and Why Not? (2021).
Lance Hool
Lance Hool is a film producer with a uniquely multifaceted background in the industry, having also worked as an actor, writer, director, executive producer, distribution company chairman, and now studio chief. Over the last four decades he has produced twenty-five major motion pictures, two of which have reached number one at the US box-office: Missing in Action (1984) and Man on Fire (2004). He currently heads Silver Lion Films, an independent film finance and production company, which he established in 1987 with his brother Conrad, and Santa Fe Studios, the world's first "green" film and television production facility, which he developed with his son Jason in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born and raised in Mexico City in 1948, Lance grew up within a family environment of international politics and art. His mother Constanza was an internationally renowned ballerina and choreographer, his father Alan an American diplomat and health innovator; his grandmother Marión de Lagos was a playwright, journalist, and actress, and his uncle the great muralist Siqueiros. His grandfather Domingo Kamffer, a tough Italian-immigrated rancher, hosted and acted in Howard Hawks' Viva Villa! (1934) on his ranch outside of Mexico City. Twenty-six years later, Lance would begin his own film career acting alongside John Wayne in Hawks' final film, Rio Lobo (1970). After earning a BA and MBA from La Universidad de las Americas, and serving as press coordinator for the 1968 Olympic Summer Games in Mexico City, Lance spent his formative years within the film industry working as an actor on films such as Soldier Blue (1970) and Lawman (1971). In 1975 he relocated to Los Angeles, guest-starring on shows like Hawaii Five-O and McCloud, and soon stepped behind the camera. From 1977 to 1980, Lance headed the US operations of Pelmex, the Mexican national film distribution company. Under his management, the company co-produced more than 20 films and released upwards of 100 theatrical releases per year. Soon he was developing and producing films of his own: Wolf Lake (1980) and Caboblanco (1980), starring the likes of Rod Steiger, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson. His relationship with Bronson lasted several more years with films such as 10 to Midnight (1983) and The Evil That Men Do (1984). After writing and producing Missing in Action (1984) he had his first bona fide hit on his hands, and went on to direct the sequel, as well as cult favorite Steel Dawn (1987) with a budding Patrick Swayze. In the 1990s Lance produced several family-oriented pictures, including Pure Luck (1991) with Martin Short and Danny Glover, The Air Up There (1994) with Kevin Bacon, and Flipper (1996) with Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan. At the end of the decade Lance produced and directed his most personally important film, One Man's Hero (1998). It took 25 years to gather the resources to tell the true story of a band of Irish immigrants, enlisted into the American army after fleeing the Great Famine of 1845, who encountered extreme religious persecution and deserted to Mexico, only to be swept up in the Mexican-American War. Heroes to the Mexicans, traitors to the Americans, the film was deemed too controversial to be commercial and its distribution was severely cut, but it received high critical praise, drawing comparisons to Lance's heroes John Ford and David Lean. When the film was released in Ireland, Lance and star Tom Berenger traveled to Belfast for the premiere. The film had found its way to Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and the mayor of Belfast. On a hot summer night in a sold-out theater, the two long-time enemies in Ireland's Troubles came together publicly for the first time. The film's portrayal of suffering by both Catholics and Protestants so moved both men that afterward they hugged like brothers. In the early 2000s, Lance went on to produce several high profile films including the third installment of the Crocodile Dundee (2001) franchise with Paul Hogan, and Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. Because of his wide-ranging aptitude for the intricacies of every stage of the filmmaking process-from acting to physical production to directing-Lance is known for his exceptional knack for managing a film's schedule and budget, while simultaneously facilitating the magic of the creative process. He enjoys an unrivaled reputation for successfully shepherding a story from the page to the screen, and for delivering films on time and on budget. Investors have always received their investment back, with a return. Utilizing these skills, in 2007 Lance realized another dream and began developing a world-class filmmaking facility in New Mexico. Santa Fe Studios opened its doors in late 2011 as the world's first "green" film studio. Recent productions include Fox's hit TV series Cosmos (2014) and Seth McFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). Lance holds a BA and MBA from La Universidad de las Americas, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild of America, the Screenwriters Guild, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.