Nelsan Ellis
Actor
Born November 30, 1977 in Harvey, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
True to the Game
Tyrik
Little Boxes
Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson
The Help
Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
Page 36
The Soloist
David Carter
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds
The Inside
Carter Howard
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri