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. ​

Known For

The Help

as Henry The Waiter

The Butler

as Martin Luther King Jr.

True Blood

as Lafayette Reynolds

Elementary

as Shinwell Johnson

The Stanford Prison Experiment

as Jesse Fletcher

The Soloist

as David Carter

Veronica Mars

as Apollo Bukenya

Secretariat

as Eddie Sweat

Get on Up

as Bobby Byrd

The Express

as Will Davis, Jr.