Cast & creator
Nelsan Ellis
Best known for RuPaul's Drag Race, Elementary, Without a Trace
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.
Also known as: Nelson Ellis
15
film credits
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television credits
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2002–2017 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (21)
Showing 21 of 21 credits
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
2009
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson
2012
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri
2002
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds
2008
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya
2004
The Help
Henry The Waiter
2011
The Inside
Carter Howard
2005
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
2010
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
2015
The Soloist
David Carter
2009
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd
2014
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
2008
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
2013
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
2005
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
2017
True to the Game
Tyrik
2017
Little Boxes
Mack
2017
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus
2013
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