Nelsan Ellis
Known for Acting
Born November 30, 1977
Died July 8, 2017
Place of Birth Harvey, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
The Help
2011
as Henry The Waiter
The Butler
2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
Secretariat
2010
as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist
2009
as David Carter
Get On Up
2014
as Bobby Byrd
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
as Wainwright
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
as Jesse Fletcher
The Express
2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs
2005
as Roy Collier
Little Boxes
2017
as Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
as Mr. Lester
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Dionysus
True to the Game
2017
as Tyrik