Nelsan Ellis
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1977
- Died
- July 8, 2017 (aged 39)
- Birthplace
- Harvey, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Little Boxes
Movie · as Mack
True to the Game
Movie · as Tyrik
Roxanne Roxanne
Movie · as Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Movie · as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
Movie · as Bobby Byrd
The Butler
Movie · as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Movie · as Wainwright
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie · as Dionysus
Elementary
TV · as Shinwell Johnson · 12 eps
The Help
Movie · as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
Movie · as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist
Movie · as David Carter
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep
The Express
Movie · as Will Davis, Jr.
True Blood
TV · as Lafayette Reynolds · 80 eps
Warm Springs
Movie · as Roy Collier
The Inside
TV · as Carter Howard · 13 eps
Veronica Mars
TV · as Apollo Bukenya · 1 ep
Without a Trace
TV · as Luol Nimieri · 1 ep