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: Harvey, Illinois, USA, 1977-11-30

Died: 2017-07-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2005	Warm Springs	Roy Collier	68
2	2008	The Express	Will Davis, Jr.	71
3	2009	The Soloist	David Carter	67
4	2010	Secretariat	Eddie Sweat	74
5	2011	The Help	Henry The Waiter	82
6	2013	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Wainwright	66
7	2013	The Butler	Martin Luther King Jr.	73
8	2013	Gods Behaving Badly	Dionysus	40
9	2014	Get on Up	Bobby Byrd	68
10	2015	The Stanford Prison Experiment	Jesse Fletcher	69
11	2017	Roxanne Roxanne	Mr. Lester	60
12	2017	Little Boxes	Mack	61
13	2017	True to the Game	Tyrik	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2002	Without a Trace	Luol Nimieri	73
2	2004	Veronica Mars	Apollo Bukenya	78
3	2005	The Inside	Carter Howard	72
4	2008	True Blood	Lafayette Reynolds	76
5	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Guest Judge	75
6	2012	Elementary	Shinwell Johnson	76