Actor
Nelsan Ellis
48 years · Harvey, Illinois, USA · 14 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 14
True to the Game
2017 · Tyrik
Little Boxes
2017 · Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 · Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Jesse Fletcher
On AMC+
Get On Up
2014 · Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 · Dionysus
The Butler
2013 · Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · Wainwright
The Help
2011 · Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
2010 · Eddie Sweat
On Disney Plus
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2010 · Director
The Soloist
2009 · David Carter
The Express
2008 · Will Davis, Jr.
On YouTube Free
Warm Springs
2005 · Roy Collier
On HBO Max