1. Tyler Lepley was born on March 24,1987 and is an American actor who portrays Benjamin "Benny" Young on the Tyler Perry produced prime time soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots; which is the first scripted television series to air on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Tyler Lepley is Italian on his mother's side and Jamaican on his biological father's side.
Tyler Lepley revealed that he was teased as a child because he was the only biracial kid in his school.
Tyler Lepley graduated from Central Bucks High School West in Doylestown.
Tyler Lepley played football for the university until the fall of 2007.
Tyler Lepley went on to graduate from Kutztown in 2010 with a degree in criminal justice.
Tyler Lepley accepted a friend's offer to relocate to Los Angeles in 2011 and found work as a personal trainer at Iron Fitness Gym in Santa Monica.
About three months after he settled in Los Angeles, Tyler Lepley was discovered by a producer at a boxing gym who invited him to audition.
Tyler Lepley, reluctantly took his agent's advice to get serious about acting and enrolled in acting classes and he soon made his acting debut in an episode of The CW's 90210.
Tyler Lepley was quite surprised when Perry came to the audition dressed as his famous Madea character because he was shooting a movie at the time.
Tyler Lepley appeared in the 2013 comedy Baggage Claim starring Paula Patton.
In early 2016, Tyler Lepley booked the lead role of Jaxon in the made-for-television film, produced by Swirl Films Ringside, directed by Russ Parr.
In 2019, Tyler Lepley was cast a series regular in the Starz drama, P-Valley.