Nelsan Ellis
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
True to the Game
as Tyrik
True to the Game
as Tyrik
Little Boxes
as Mack
Little Boxes
as Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist
as David Carter
The Soloist
as David Carter
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier