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2002	Lost	Hoffa	Short film
2005	Trespass	Donny	Short ????
2008	The Express	Will Davis, Jr.
2009	The Soloist	David Carter
2009	Talent	Titus
2010	Secretariat	Eddie Sweat
2011	The Help	Henry the Waiter
2012	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Wainwright
2013	Page 36	Writer and ???? ???????	Short ????
2013	The Butler	Martin Luther King, Jr.
2014	Get On Up	Bobby Byrd
2015	The Stanford Prison Experiment	Jesse Fletcher
2016	Little Boxes	Mack Burns
2017	True to the Game	Tyrik	Completed; posthumous release
2018	Roxanne Roxanne	Mr. Lester	Posthumous release

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2005	Warm Springs	Roy Collier	Television film
2005?2006	The Inside	Carter Howard	12 episodes
2007	Veronica Mars	Apollo Bukenya	Episode: " I Know What You'll Do Next Summer "
2007	Without a Trace	Deng Nimieri	Episode: "Lost Boy"
2008?2014	True Blood	Lafayette Reynolds	Regular; 80 episodes Won Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor ? Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won Satellite Award for Best Cast ? Television Series Nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Won Ewwy Award for best supporting actor in a Drama series Won NewNowNext Award for Brink of Fame: Actor Nominated for a Scream Award for best supporting actor
2015	RuPaul's Drag Race	Himself, Guest Judge	Episode: "Conjoined Queens"
2016?2017	Elementary	Shinwell Johnson	Main character; 11 episodes

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