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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Soloist
as David Carter
2009
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
2010
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
2014
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
2015
Little Boxes
as Mack
2017
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
2011
True to the Game
as Tyrik
2017
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
2013
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
2017
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
2008
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
2005
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
2013
