Actor profile

Nelsan Ellis

30th November 1977 Harvey, Illinois, USA Acting

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.

13 Movies 6 TV Shows 19 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

True to the Game poster

True to the Game 8th September 2017 as Tyrik

Little Boxes poster

Little Boxes 14th April 2017 as Mack

Roxanne Roxanne poster

Roxanne Roxanne 22nd January 2017 as Mr. Lester

The Stanford Prison Experiment poster

The Stanford Prison Experiment 17th July 2015 as Jesse Fletcher

Get On Up poster

Get On Up 1st August 2014 as Bobby Byrd

Gods Behaving Badly poster

Gods Behaving Badly 13th November 2013 as Dionysus

The Butler poster

The Butler 16th August 2013 as Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist poster

The Reluctant Fundamentalist 24th April 2013 as Wainwright

The Help poster

The Help 9th August 2011 as Henry The Waiter

Secretariat poster

Secretariat 20th August 2010 as Eddie Sweat

The Soloist poster

The Soloist 24th April 2009 as David Carter

The Express poster

The Express 10th October 2008 as Will Davis, Jr.

Warm Springs poster

Warm Springs 30th April 2005 as Roy Collier

Elementary poster

Elementary 27th September 2012 as Shinwell Johnson

RuPaul's Drag Race poster

RuPaul's Drag Race 2nd February 2009 as Self - Guest Judge

True Blood poster

True Blood 7th September 2008 as Lafayette Reynolds

The Inside poster

The Inside 8th June 2005 as Carter Howard

Veronica Mars poster

Veronica Mars 22nd September 2004 as Apollo Bukenya

Without a Trace poster

Without a Trace 26th September 2002 as Luol Nimieri