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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 30, 1977
Died
July 8, 2017
Place of Birth
Harvey, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Nelson Ellis
Nelsan Ellis
1.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.9
Tyrik
True to the Game
2017
6.2
Mack
Little Boxes
2017
6.0
Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
6.8
Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
6.8
Bobby Byrd
Get on Up
2014
2.5
Dionysus
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
7.3
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
2013
6.6
Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
7.6
Shinwell Johnson
Elementary
2012
8.2
Henry The Waiter
The Help
2011
Credits
True to the Game
as Tyrik
2017
5.9
Little Boxes
as Mack
2017
6.2
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
2017
6.0
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
2015
6.8
Get on Up
as Bobby Byrd
2014
6.8
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
2013
2.5
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
7.3
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
2013
6.6
Elementary
as Shinwell Johnson
2012
7.6
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
2011
8.2
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
2010
7.4
The Soloist
as David Carter
2009
6.7
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
2008
7.1
True Blood
as Lafayette Reynolds
2008
7.6
The Inside
as Carter Howard
2005
7.2
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
2005
6.8
Veronica Mars
as Apollo Bukenya
2004
7.8
Without a Trace
as Luol Nimieri
2002
7.2