Nelsan Ellis
Acting • Born 1977-11-30 – Died 2017-07-08
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.
Filmography
19 credits
The Soloist
Movie • 2009
David Carter
Secretariat
Movie • 2010
Eddie Sweat
Get On Up
Movie • 2014
Bobby Byrd
The Butler
Movie • 2013
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Movie • 2015
Jesse Fletcher
Little Boxes
Movie • 2017
Mack
The Help
Movie • 2011
Henry The Waiter
True to the Game
Movie • 2017
Tyrik
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Movie • 2013
Wainwright
Roxanne Roxanne
Movie • 2017
Mr. Lester
The Express
Movie • 2008
Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs
Movie • 2005
Roy Collier
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie • 2013
Dionysus
Veronica Mars
TV • 2004
Apollo Bukenya
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Luol Nimieri
The Inside
TV • 2005
Carter Howard
True Blood
TV • 2008
Lafayette Reynolds
Elementary
TV • 2012
Shinwell Johnson
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV • 2009
Self - Guest Judge