Nelsan Ellis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-11-30 (40 years old)

Deathday

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. ​

Acting

2009

The Soloist

as David Carter

2010

Secretariat

as Eddie Sweat

2014

Get on Up

as Bobby Byrd

2013

The Butler

as Martin Luther King Jr.

2015

2017

2011

The Help

as Henry The Waiter

2017

2017

Roxanne Roxanne

as Mr. Lester

2008

The Express

as Will Davis, Jr.

2005

Warm Springs

as Roy Collier

2013

Production

2010

Page 36

as Story

2010

Page 36

as Director

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