Nelsan Ellis
Actor
- Born
- November 30, 1977 · Harvey, Illinois, USA
- Died
- July 8, 2017 (age 39)
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
August 9, 2011
The Butler
August 16, 2013
The Stanford Prison Experiment
July 17, 2015
The Soloist
April 24, 2009
Secretariat
August 20, 2010
Get On Up
August 1, 2014
The Express
October 10, 2008
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
April 24, 2013
Roxanne Roxanne
January 22, 2017
Little Boxes
April 14, 2017
True to the Game
September 8, 2017
Warm Springs
April 30, 2005
Acting13
- 2017True to the Game as Tyrik
- 2017Little Boxes as Mack
- 2017Roxanne Roxanne as Mr. Lester
- 2015The Stanford Prison Experiment as Jesse Fletcher
- 2014Get On Up as Bobby Byrd
- 2013Gods Behaving Badly as Dionysus
- 2013The Butler as Martin Luther King Jr.
- 2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Wainwright
- 2011The Help as Henry The Waiter
- 2010Secretariat