Nelsan Ellis
Biography
Nelsan Ellis (born c. 1978) was an award-winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood.
He died on July 8, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, from complications with heart failure at the age of 39.
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Known For
Acting History
2017
True to the Game as Tyrik
2017Little Boxes as Mack
2017Roxanne Roxanne as Mr. Lester
2015The Stanford Prison Experiment as Jesse Fletcher
2014Get on Up as Bobby Byrd
2013Gods Behaving Badly as Dionysus
2013The Butler as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Wainwright
2012Elementary as Shinwell Johnson
2011The Help as Henry The Waiter
2010Secretariat as Eddie Sweat
2009The Soloist as David Carter
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
2008The Express as Will Davis, Jr.
2008True Blood as Lafayette Reynolds
2005The Inside as Carter Howard
2005Warm Springs as Roy Collier
2004Veronica Mars as Apollo Bukenya
2002Without a Trace as Luol Nimieri