Nelsan Ellis
November 30, 1977 (47 years old) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2017 · True to the Game as Tyrik
- 2017 · Little Boxes as Mack
- 2017 · Roxanne Roxanne as Mr. Lester
- 2015 · The Stanford Prison Experiment as Jesse Fletcher
- 2014 · Get on Up as Bobby Byrd
- 2013 · The Butler as Martin Luther King Jr.
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Wainwright
- 2012 · Elementary as Shinwell Johnson
- 2011 · The Help as Henry The Waiter
- 2010 · Secretariat as Eddie Sweat
- 2009 · The Soloist as David Carter
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 2008 · The Express as Will Davis, Jr.
- 2008 · True Blood as Lafayette Reynolds
- 2005 · The Inside as Carter Howard
- 2005 · Warm Springs as Roy Collier
- 2004 · Veronica Mars as Apollo Bukenya
- 2002 · Without a Trace as Luol Nimieri