Acting
Nelsan Ellis
Harvey, Illinois, USABorn 1977
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
Films
6
TV Shows
1
Crew Credits
Known For
19 Credits
Elementary
as Shinwell Johnson
2012
Veronica Mars
as Apollo Bukenya
2004
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
Without a Trace
as Luol Nimieri
2002
True Blood
as Lafayette Reynolds
2008
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
2011
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
2010
The Inside
as Carter Howard
2005
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
2008
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
2005
The Soloist
as David Carter
2009
