Nelsan Ellis

Nelsan Ellis

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

30/11/1977

Day of Death

08/07/2017
(40) years old

Place of Birth

Harvey, Illinois, USA

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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2017

True to the Game

as Tyrik

2017

Little Boxes

as Mack

2017

Roxanne Roxanne

as Mr. Lester

2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment

as Jesse Fletcher

2014

Get on Up

as Bobby Byrd

2013

Gods Behaving Badly

as Dionysus

2013

The Butler

as Martin Luther King Jr.

2011

The Help

as Henry The Waiter

2010

Secretariat

as Eddie Sweat

2009

The Soloist

as David Carter

2008

The Express

as Will Davis, Jr.

2005

Warm Springs

as Roy Collier

Crew

2010

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as Director

2010

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