Allen Payne is known as an American actor. He is most famous for his role House of Payne.
Allen Payne was born on July 7, 1968 in Harlem, New York. He was born to parents, Allen Roberts and Barbara Reeves. He had just one sibling but plenty of close family members around that was considered immediate family. Growing up as a teen, he attended Pennsauken High School in New Jersey.
He spent most of his youth living in New York and attended dance classes. He was immediately labeled as difficult as a result of his Harlem roots. After school, Payne came back to Manhattan. At the point when one of his companions was murdered, Payne's cousin recommended acting classes to keep Payne out of the gang life. The cousin took Payne to the famous and very much regarded Actor's Studio. Payne speaks glowingly about the Actor's Studio, "The Actor’s studio had such an impressive history behind it. I was immediately pulled in. There was such excitement there and a sense of importance to be able to study in the same place where Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, and all the other greats had gone before."
Payne started taking classes at the celebrated studios and was before long cast in the off-Broadway production The Harlem Cowboy with the Tribe Theater Company. He at that point went on to the show The Arm Wrestle with the Circle Repertory Theater.
Allen Payne has proven to be a very good and professional actor in the film and television industry. He has featured in top rated TV shows and movies. Allen has had a very fantastic career through his work years. He has featured in numerous movies throughout his career and has worked with A list actors.
His first appearance on TV was The Cosby Show in 1990. He played the role of Lance Rodman for two seasons. He also featured as Marcus Stokes on an episode in season two of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He was most known for the role he played on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, a television series which aired from 2006-2012,.
Apart from his work on television series he has also featured in films like Dead Mike, where he had a lead role in the film that was produced by Nelson George. He was also known for a role he played in the film New Jack City. That is when New Jack City makers George Jackson and Doug McHenry tapped Payne to star in Jason 's Lyric. They were satisfied with his a bolted and stacked performance in New Jack City. In Jason’s Lyric, he co-starred with Jada Pinkett Smith.
Jason's Lyric is West Side Story meets East of Eden, it takes on some exemplary topics. The film is about how Payne's character Jason Alexander attempts to battle with both family and sentimental issues in Houston's extreme downtown. Allen also played Euripides Smalls, the politically cognizant “master verbalizer” in 1993's gangsta' rappers parody CB4.
Allen Payne has not revealed public information about his personal and private relationships.
| Birth Date: | 7 Jul, 1968 |
| Age: | 51 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Television actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Harlem |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Film and television actor |
| Twitter Id: | A_Payne_ |
| Net Worth 2021: | 5 million |
