Southland’s Kevin Alejandro has been cast as a love interest for Nelsan Ellis’s Lafayette on the upcoming third season of HBO’s popular supernatural drama True Blood, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In a guest arc kicking off this spring, Alejandro will play Jesus, a Latino orderly assigned to care for Lafayette’s ailing Ruby Jean Reynolds at an assisted living facility.
The actor, who is still billed as a series regular on the gritty TNT police drama, joins the recently-cast Joe Manganiello, Lindsay Pulsipher, and James Frain on True Blood. He has also appeared in guest arc on Ugly Betty and Weeds.