![]() ![]() Louis to see his father in a coffin he met a side of his family he had never seen before. For Archey, while he did know who his father was he rarely saw him and when he flew out to St. On the show, Grant didn’t have a relationship with his father and first saw him in a coffin. “I’m happy to play a character who’s intelligent.”īeyond the surface level, he also found himself playing a character that had gone through a similar situation as he had in real life. “On SOAPS, people do wild stuff,” Archey said. Playing the FBI agent that has a level head is exciting for Archey. His first gig was two under-five roles on Days of Our Lives before playing recurring character Mason Wilder on CBS’ The Young and the Restless from 2012 to 2014.Īfter vacating the role of Wilder he dabbled in other projects before landing his full-timee role as Eli Grant on Days of Our Lives. ![]() Again, never having thought this would be what he would do, he decided to put his best foot forward by taking acting classes to learn the craft. “I was working with beautiful girls and getting paid for it,” Archey said.Īfter being scouted by a company in San Francisco he was approached to be an actor. But after thinking it over, he eventually decided to give it a shot and from there was connected to people who would book him photoshoots.Īfter his first photoshoot for a blunt company he was not opposed to the career field he found himself in. “I didn’t have any thoughts or wants in it,” he said. ![]() When she found out he wasn’t she asked if he’d be interested. However, he saw an ad in a paper about a job fair and headed there which is where he was discovered.Īt the job fair, he was approached by a woman who thought he was a model. He didn’t have a job lined up upon his arrival. He moved into Torrance where the only person he knew there was his uncle. There was nothing for him in the Bay Area, so he decided to move away from his family. “I felt like there was a lot more out in the world for me.” “I didn’t feel like it was leading to anything,” he said. While not all of his tattoos have meanings behind them (such as a tattoo that includes the name of one his kids) he gets some for the aesthetics such as the dragon inked on his chest.Ĭoming out of high school, A rchey was a carpenter who was finishing hardwood floors, although he didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do he knew he didn’t want to be a carpenter forever. “Every year I say I’m done…(but) I like the way they look,” he said. After being suspended from school he heated a wire hanger on an oven and burnt a cross on his arm. Archey began his tattoo collection at 18 but ever since he was 17 he wanted one. “I flung by the seat of my pants,” Archey said.Īs a teenager coming out of high school, he found his love for tattoos before finding his calling in the entertainment industry. Growing up in the Bay Area of California he didn’t have early aspirations for acting or modeling, in fact, he didn’t have a career plan in mind. Getting in Hollywood is only half the challenge as constantly getting work in Hollywood is also difficult, he admitted. It’s a career he’s come to love although he describes it as a constant challenge. Since assuming the role in 2017 Archey is grateful he’s got a full-time job working in Hollywood. He’s FBI agent Eli Grant on NBC’s Days of Our Lives. Pursuing a career in modeling and acting was never a thought for Lamon Archey growing up, but when he saw his opening, he took the steps to make sure he stayed in Hollywood. ![]()
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