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 Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1977-11-30 · Harvey, Illinois, USA
- Died
- 2017-07-08
Known for
- The Help (2011) — Henry The Waiter
- The Butler (2013) — Martin Luther King Jr.
- True Blood (2008) — Lafayette Reynolds
- Elementary (2012) — Shinwell Johnson
- The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) — Jesse Fletcher
- The Soloist (2009) — David Carter
- Veronica Mars (2004) — Apollo Bukenya
- Secretariat (2010) — Eddie Sweat
- Get On Up (2014) — Bobby Byrd
- The Express (2008) — Will Davis, Jr.
- RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) — Self - Guest Judge
- Without a Trace (2002) — Luol Nimieri
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) — Wainwright
- Roxanne Roxanne (2017) — Mr. Lester
- Little Boxes (2017) — Mack
- True to the Game (2017) — Tyrik