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Nelsan Ellis
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.
Top Filmography

8.2
The Help
2011 // MOVIE

7.3
The Butler
2013 // MOVIE

7.6
True Blood
2008 // TV

7.6
Elementary
2012 // TV

6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 // MOVIE

6.7
The Soloist
2009 // MOVIE

7.8
Veronica Mars
2004 // TV

7.4
Secretariat
2010 // MOVIE

6.8
Get On Up
2014 // MOVIE

7.1
The Express
2008 // MOVIE

7.2
Without a Trace
2002 // TV

7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 // TV

6.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 // MOVIE

6.0
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 // MOVIE

6.1
Little Boxes
2017 // MOVIE