Nelsan Ellis

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. ​

Known For

Without a Trace

Elementary

RuPaul's Drag Race

True Blood

Veronica Mars

The Help

The Inside

The Butler

All Movies (13)

• True to the Game2017 · as Tyrik
• Little Boxes2017 · as Mack
• Roxanne Roxanne2017 · as Mr. Lester
• The Stanford Prison Experiment2015 · as Jesse Fletcher
• Get On Up2014 · as Bobby Byrd
• Gods Behaving Badly2013 · as Dionysus
• The Butler2013 · as Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist2013 · as Wainwright
• The Help2011 · as Henry The Waiter
• Secretariat2010 · as Eddie Sweat
• The Soloist2009 · as David Carter
• The Express2008 · as Will Davis, Jr.
• Warm Springs2005 · as Roy Collier

All TV Shows (6)

• Elementary2012 · as Shinwell Johnson
• RuPaul's Drag Race2009 · as Self - Guest Judge
• True Blood2008 · as Lafayette Reynolds
• The Inside2005 · as Carter Howard
• Veronica Mars2004 · as Apollo Bukenya
• Without a Trace2002 · as Luol Nimieri