Nelsan Ellis
Nov 30, 1977 - Jul 08, 2017 (39 years old) in Harvey, Illinois, USA
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.
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Known For
Elementary
Shinwell Johnson
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya
The Help
Henry The Waiter
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
The Soloist
David Carter
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
Credits
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True to the Game 2017Tyrik★ 5.8 -
Little Boxes 2017Mack★ 6.1 -
Roxanne Roxanne 2017Mr. Lester★ 6 -
Jesse Fletcher★ 6.8 -
Get on Up 2014Bobby Byrd★ 6.8 -
Gods Behaving Badly 2013Dionysus★ 2.5 -
The Butler 2013Martin Luther King Jr.★ 7.3 -
Wainwright★ 6.6 -
Elementary 2012Shinwell Johnson★ 7.6 -
The Help 2011Henry The Waiter★ 8.2 -
Secretariat 2010Eddie Sweat★ 7.4 -
The Soloist 2009David Carter★ 6.7 -
RuPaul's Drag Race 2009Self - Guest Judge★ 7.5 -
The Express 2008Will Davis, Jr.★ 7.1 -
True Blood 2008Lafayette Reynolds★ 7.6 -
The Inside 2005Carter Howard★ 7.2 -
Warm Springs 2005Roy Collier★ 6.6 -
Veronica Mars 2004Apollo Bukenya★ 7.8 -
Without a Trace 2002Luol Nimieri★ 7.2