Nelsan Ellis

Known for: Acting

Born: 1977-11-30 – 2017-07-08 (aged 39)

From: 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.

Filmography (19)

MOVIE★ 5.8
True to the Game
2017
as Tyrik
MOVIE★ 6.2
Little Boxes
2017
as Mack
MOVIE★ 6.0
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
as Mr. Lester
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
as Jesse Fletcher
MOVIE★ 6.8
Get On Up
2014
as Bobby Byrd
MOVIE★ 2.5
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Dionysus
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Butler
2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
as Wainwright
TV★ 7.6
Elementary
2012
as Shinwell Johnson
MOVIE★ 8.2
The Help
2011
as Henry The Waiter
MOVIE★ 7.4
Secretariat
2010
as Eddie Sweat
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Soloist
2009
as David Carter
TV★ 7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Express
2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
TV★ 7.6
True Blood
2008
as Lafayette Reynolds
TV★ 7.3
The Inside
2005
as Carter Howard
MOVIE★ 6.6
Warm Springs
2005
as Roy Collier
TV★ 7.8
Veronica Mars
2004
as Apollo Bukenya
TV★ 7.2
Without a Trace
2002
as Luol Nimieri