Nelsan Ellis

Actor

Born November 30, 1977 in Harvey, Illinois, USA. Died July 8, 2017.

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.

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He died on July 8, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, from complications with heart failure at the age of 39.

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Acting

True to the Game
Film, 2017
as Tyrik
Little Boxes
Film, 2017
as Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
Film, 2017
as Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Film, 2015
as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
Film, 2014
as Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly
Film, 2013
as Dionysus
The Butler
Film, 2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Film, 2013
as Wainwright
Elementary
TV series, 2012
as Shinwell Johnson
The Help
Film, 2011
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
Film, 2010
as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist
Film, 2009
as David Carter
The Express
Film, 2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
True Blood
TV series, 2008
as Lafayette Reynolds
The Inside
TV series, 2005
as Carter Howard
Warm Springs
Film, 2005
as Roy Collier
Veronica Mars
TV series, 2004
as Apollo Bukenya
Without a Trace
TV series, 2002
as Luol Nimieri

Directed

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Film, 2010