Nelsan Ellis
Known For
Acting
Born
1977-11-30 in Harvey, Illinois, USA
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.
Most Known For
Elementary
as Shinwell Johnson
Veronica Mars
as Apollo Bukenya
True Blood
as Lafayette Reynolds
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
Without a Trace
as Luol Nimieri
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Inside
as Carter Howard
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
The Soloist
as David Carter
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
Little Boxes
as Mack
True to the Game
as Tyrik
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus