Christian Payton was born on December 24, 1965 in Chicago Illinois. He started out in musicals and plays when he was very young. Christian Payton has landed roles in a variety of movies ranging from U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals (film)

U.S. Marshals is a 1998 action thriller film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes, and a sequel to The Fugitive. The storyline of U.S. Marshals does not feature the character Dr. Richard Kimble; the role of the protagonist has been passed onto Samuel Gerard and his team of U.S...

and Strange as Angels. In The Temptations

The Temptations (miniseries)

The Temptations is a four-hour television miniseries broadcast in two-hour halves on NBC, based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts, The Temptations...

, Christian Payton was cast as Paul Williams, one of the original famous Temptations, and sang his own parts.