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