Nelsan Ellis
Acting
Born November 30, 1977 — Died July 8, 2017
From Harvey, Illinois, USA
Also known as Nelson Ellis
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 ...
Filmography
True to the Game
Tyrik
20175.8
Little Boxes
Mack
20176.2
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
20176.0
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
20156.8
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd
20146.8
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus
20132.5
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
20137.3
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
20136.6
The Help
Henry The Waiter
20118.2
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
20107.4
The Soloist
David Carter
20096.7
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
20087.2
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
20056.6