Nelsan Ellis

Biography:

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

Without a Trace

RuPaul's Drag Race

Elementary

Veronica Mars

True Blood

The Help

Secretariat

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Express

The Inside

Acting

2017

Little Boxes as Mack

True to the Game as Tyrik

Roxanne Roxanne as Mr. Lester

2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment as Jesse Fletcher

2014

Get on Up as Bobby Byrd

2013

The Butler as Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Wainwright

Gods Behaving Badly as Dionysus

2012

Elementary as Shinwell Johnson

2011

The Help as Henry The Waiter

2010

Secretariat as Eddie Sweat

2009

The Soloist as David Carter

RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge

2008

The Express as Will Davis, Jr.

True Blood as Lafayette Reynolds

2005

Warm Springs as Roy Collier

The Inside as Carter Howard

2004

Veronica Mars as Apollo Bukenya

2002

Without a Trace as Luol Nimieri

Directing

2010

Page 36 as Director

Writing

2010

Page 36 as Story

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Nelsan Ellis

Biography:

Known For

Acting

Directing

Writing