Nelsan Ellis
Known for ActingBorn 1977-11-30 — died 2017-07-08Harvey, Illinois, USA
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.
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Known for
The Help
2011 · as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
2010 · as Eddie Sweat
The Butler
2013 · as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · as Wainwright
Warm Springs
2005 · as Roy Collier
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
2014 · as Bobby Byrd
The Soloist
2009 · as David Carter
The Express
2008 · as Will Davis, Jr.
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 · as Mr. Lester
True to the Game
2017 · as Tyrik
Little Boxes
2017 · as Mack
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 · as Dionysus