Nelsan Ellis
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Help (2011)
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat (2010)
as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist (2009)
as David Carter
The Butler (2013)
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up (2014)
as Bobby Byrd
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
as Wainwright
The Express (2008)
as Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs (2005)
as Roy Collier
Roxanne Roxanne (2017)
as Mr. Lester
True to the Game (2017)
as Tyrik
Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
as Dionysus
Little Boxes (2017)
as Mack