Lafayette Reynolds

We mostly tune into True Blood for shirtless Eric Northman, but Lafayette’s sassy one liners come in at a close second.

Season 5 was full of snarky bitchisms from our favorite do-rag-wearing cook, but we are all for playing favorites. To help tide you over until Season 6’s Summer 2013 premiere — we know, it’s so far away! — we’ve rounded up five of our...

True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis is ditching Lafayette’s doo-rag and suiting up as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nelsan joins an all-star cast in the upcoming film The Butler, which details the life of a White House servant Eugene Allen, who worked for eight First Families, Deadline reports.

Among the many big-name stars are Robin Williams and Melissa Leo (as President and Mamie Eisenhower),...

Bon Temps' resident brujo, Lafayette Reynolds, is guilty of many things, including accidentally murdering his boyfriend, pouring bleach into the shrimp gumbo, and hijacking Sookie's yellow Honda.

But according to actor Nelsan Ellis, his biggest sin isn't one of the aforementioned illegal activities.

"Gluttony," the True Blood star reveals. "He just wants and wants and wants."