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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Help (2011) — Henry The Waiter
2. The Butler (2013) — Martin Luther King Jr.
3. True Blood (2008) — Lafayette Reynolds
4. Elementary (2012) — Shinwell Johnson
5. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) — Jesse Fletcher
6. The Soloist (2009) — David Carter
7. Veronica Mars (2004) — Apollo Bukenya
8. Secretariat (2010) — Eddie Sweat
9. Get On Up (2014) — Bobby Byrd
10. The Express (2008) — Will Davis, Jr.
11. RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) — Self - Guest Judge
12. Without a Trace (2002) — Luol Nimieri
13. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) — Wainwright
14. Roxanne Roxanne (2017) — Mr. Lester
15. Little Boxes (2017) — Mack
16. True to the Game (2017) — Tyrik
17. Warm Springs (2005) — Roy Collier
18. The Inside (2005) — Carter Howard
19. Gods Behaving Badly (2013) — Dionysus

Directed

1. Page 36 (2010) — Director