Lamon Archey

Born in 1981, Archey was raised in San Mateo, California by his grandparents.[3][2] Archey played baseball and football during his first two years of high school.[1] Archey has had very little contact with his father, who died when he was 20 years old.[4] After high school, Archey worked as a carpenter installing floors for two years. He then moved to Los Angeles with his uncle where he found work as an emergency medical technician.[3][5] Archey has 12 tattoos.[6] On 25th March 2023 Lamon married his wife ex-dancer and fitness trainer Krissy Terry just shy of 2 months after the annoucement of their engagement on 30th January 2023 [7] in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, CA. Jerry Larenzo of Fear Of God was in attendance as well as Lamon's 3 children from previous wife fashion model, actress and painter [8]Mercedes Cornett. [9] [10]

Living in Los Angeles, Archey took up modeling after he was scouted at a job fair.[11] He credits modeling with helping him break out of his shell. He was later advised by manager Michael Bruno to get into acting classes so he could get a gig on a soap.[11] After about two years of acting classes with no results, Archey was ready to give up when he booked two under-five roles on Days of Our Lives.[3][11] In December 2012, Archey was cast in the recurring role of Mason Wilder on The Young and the Restless.[12] Archey vacated the role in early 2014.[11] In 2016, Archey returned to Days of Our Lives in the newly created contract role of Eli Grant. He appeared onscreen in February 2017.[13] In March 2017, Archey appeared in the television film Can't Buy Love.[1]

In 2020, Archey was cast as a guest-star in the season 2 finale of The CW's All American. He would play D'Angelo Carter.[14] In December 2020, it was announced that Archey would reprise his role in season 3 in a recurring capacity.[15]

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