Nelsan Ellis

Nelsan Ellis

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 …

Filmography

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