Nelsan Ellis

Actor · 1977–2017 · Harvey, Illinois, USA

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.

Acted in 18

2010s

2017
True to the Game
Tyrik
57
Little Boxes
Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
66
2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
71
2014
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd
72
2013
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
71
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
62
2012
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson · 12 episodes
78
2011
The Help
Henry The Waiter
76
2010
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
68

2000s

2009
The Soloist
David Carter
63
2008
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
67
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds · 80 episodes
78
2005
The Inside
Carter Howard · 13 episodes
77
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
72
2004
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya · 1 episode
82
2002
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri · 1 episode
71

Directed 1

2010s

2010
Page 36
Director

Wrote 1

2010s

2010
Page 36
Story

Appearances1

2000s

2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge · 1 episode
82