Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1977-11-30
Day of Death
2017-07-08
Place of Birth
Harvey, Illinois, USA
Nelsan 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 Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (13)
⭐ 5.8
Role:
Tyrik
True to the Game
2017
⭐ 6.1
Role:
Mack
Little Boxes
2017
⭐ 6.0
Role:
Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
⭐ 6.8
Role:
Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
⭐ 6.8
Role:
Bobby Byrd
Get On Up
2014
⭐ 2.5
Role:
Dionysus
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
⭐ 7.3
Role:
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
2013
⭐ 6.6
Role:
Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
⭐ 8.2
Role:
Henry The Waiter
The Help
2011
⭐ 7.4
Role:
Eddie Sweat
Secretariat
2010
⭐ 6.7
Role:
David Carter
The Soloist
2009
⭐ 7.1
Role:
Will Davis, Jr.
The Express
2008
⭐ 6.6
Role:
Roy Collier