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

• 2017Little Boxes — Mack
• 2017Roxanne Roxanne — Mr. Lester
• 2017True to the Game — Tyrik
• 2015The Stanford Prison Experiment — Jesse Fletcher
• 2014Get On Up — Bobby Byrd
• 2013Gods Behaving Badly — Dionysus
• 2013The Butler — Martin Luther King Jr.
• 2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Wainwright
• Elementary — Shinwell Johnson
• 2011The Help — Henry The Waiter
• 2010Page 36 — Story, Director
• 2010Secretariat — Eddie Sweat
• 2009The Soloist — David Carter
• 2008The Express — Will Davis, Jr.
• True Blood — Lafayette Reynolds
• The Inside — Carter Howard
• 2005Warm Springs — Roy Collier
• Veronica Mars — Apollo Bukenya
• Without a Trace — Luol Nimieri

Appearances as themselves (1)

• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge