Nelsan Ellis
Acting
39 years oldHarvey, Illinois, USABiography
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.
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Also Known As
Nelson Ellis
Movies (14)
5.8
True to the Game
as Tyrik
2017
6.1
Little Boxes
as Mack
2017
6.0
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
2017
6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
2015
6.8
Get on Up
as Bobby Byrd
2014
2.5
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
2013
7.3
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
6.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
2013
8.2
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
2011
7.4
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
2010
Page 36
Story (Writing)
2010
6.7
The Soloist
as David Carter
2009
7.1
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
2008
6.6
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
2005
