Acting · Harvey, Illinois, USA · Born November 30, 1977
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.
MovieTrue to the Game
2017
as Tyrik
MovieLittle Boxes
2017
as Mack
MovieRoxanne Roxanne
2017
as Mr. Lester
MovieThe Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
as Jesse Fletcher
MovieGet On Up
2014
as Bobby Byrd
MovieGods Behaving Badly
2013
as Dionysus
MovieThe Butler
2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
MovieThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
as Wainwright
TVElementary
2012
as Shinwell Johnson
MovieThe Help
2011
as Henry The Waiter
MovieSecretariat
2010
as Eddie Sweat
MovieThe Soloist
2009
as David Carter
TVRuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge
MovieThe Express
2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
TVTrue Blood
2008
as Lafayette Reynolds
TVThe Inside
2005
as Carter Howard
MovieWarm Springs
2005
as Roy Collier
TVVeronica Mars
2004
as Apollo Bukenya
TVWithout a Trace
2002
as Luol Nimieri
