Nelsan Ellis
Birthday
1977/11/30
Day of death
2017/07/08 (39 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Harvey, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Nelson 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.
Acting
(2009) The Soloist
as David Carter
(2010) Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
(2014) Get on Up
as Bobby Byrd
(2013) The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
(2015) The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
(2017) Little Boxes
as Mack
(2011) The Help
as Henry The Waiter
(2017) True to the Game
as Tyrik
(2013) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
(2017) Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
(2008) The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
(2005) Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
(2004) Veronica Mars
as Apollo Bukenya
(2002) Without a Trace
as Luol Nimieri
(2005) The Inside
as Carter Howard
(2008) True Blood
as Lafayette Reynolds
(2012) Elementary
as Shinwell Johnson
(2009) RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge