
Nelsan Ellis
Department: Acting
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 Soloist
2009

Secretariat
2010

Get On Up
2014

The Butler
2013

The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015

Little Boxes
2017

The Help
2011

True to the Game
2017

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013

Roxanne Roxanne
2017

The Express
2008

Warm Springs
2005

Gods Behaving Badly
2013

Veronica Mars
2004

Without a Trace
2002

The Inside
2005

True Blood
2008

Elementary
2012

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009