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Nelsan Ellis

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

True to the Game

as Tyrik

Little Boxes

as Mack

Roxanne Roxanne

as Mr. Lester

The Stanford Prison Experiment

as Jesse Fletcher

Get On Up

as Bobby Byrd

Gods Behaving Badly

as Dionysus

The Butler

as Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

as Wainwright

Elementary

as Shinwell Johnson

The Help

as Henry The Waiter

Secretariat

as Eddie Sweat

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Director

The Soloist

as David Carter

RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

The Express

as Will Davis, Jr.

True Blood

as Lafayette Reynolds

The Inside

as Carter Howard

Warm Springs

as Roy Collier

Veronica Mars

as Apollo Bukenya

Without a Trace

as Luol Nimieri