Nelsan Ellis
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.
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Known for
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri
The Inside
Carter Howard
The Help
Henry The Waiter
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
Get on Up
Bobby Byrd
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
The Soloist
David Carter
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
True to the Game
Tyrik
Little Boxes
Mack
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus