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