Actor
Nelsan Ellis
Born 1977 · 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.
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Acting
The Help
Henry The Waiter · 2011
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr. · 2013
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds · 2008
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson · 2012
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya · 2004
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat · 2010
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher · 2015
The Soloist
David Carter · 2009
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd · 2014
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge · 2009
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri · 2002
The Express
Will Davis, Jr. · 2008
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright · 2013
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester · 2017
Little Boxes
Mack · 2017
The Inside
Carter Howard · 2005
Warm Springs
Roy Collier · 2005
True to the Game
Tyrik · 2017
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus · 2013