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Nelsan Ellis

Acting Born Nov 30, 1977 Harvey, Illinois, USA 19 credits

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.

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Known for

Without a Trace

as Luol Nimieri

Elementary

as Shinwell Johnson

RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

True Blood

as Lafayette Reynolds

Veronica Mars

as Apollo Bukenya
Film

The Help

as Henry The Waiter

Full filmography

  • Without a Trace (2002) as Luol Nimieri
  • Elementary (2012) as Shinwell Johnson
  • RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) as Self - Guest Judge
  • True Blood (2008) as Lafayette Reynolds
  • Veronica Mars (2004) as Apollo Bukenya
  • The Help (2011) as Henry The Waiter
  • The Inside (2005) as Carter Howard
  • The Butler (2013) as Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Secretariat (2010) as Eddie Sweat
  • Get On Up (2014) as Bobby Byrd
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) as Jesse Fletcher
  • The Soloist (2009) as David Carter
  • The Express (2008) as Will Davis, Jr.
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) as Wainwright
  • Warm Springs (2005) as Roy Collier
  • Roxanne Roxanne (2017) as Mr. Lester
  • Gods Behaving Badly (2013) as Dionysus
  • Little Boxes (2017) as Mack
  • True to the Game (2017) as Tyrik