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Actor
Nelsan Ellis
- Born November 30, 1977 in Harvey, Illinois, USA
- Died July 8, 2017
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
The Help2011
The Butler2013
True Blood2008
Elementary2012
The Stanford Prison Experiment2015
The Soloist2009
Veronica Mars2004
Secretariat2010
Filmography
- 2017Roxanne RoxanneFilmMr. Lester
- 2017Little BoxesFilmMack
- 2017True to the GameFilmTyrik
- 2015The Stanford Prison ExperimentFilmJesse Fletcher
- 2014Get On UpFilmBobby Byrd
- 2013The ButlerFilmMartin Luther King Jr.
- 2013The Reluctant FundamentalistFilmWainwright
- 2013Gods Behaving BadlyFilmDionysus
- 2012ElementarySeriesShinwell Johnson
- 2011The HelpFilmHenry The Waiter
- 2010SecretariatFilmEddie Sweat
- 2010Page 36FilmDirector, Story
- 2009The SoloistFilmDavid Carter
- 2009RuPaul's Drag RaceSeriesSelf - Guest Judge
- 2008True BloodSeriesLafayette Reynolds
- 2008The ExpressFilmWill Davis, Jr.
- 2005Warm SpringsFilmRoy Collier
- 2005The InsideSeriesCarter Howard
- 2004Veronica MarsSeriesApollo Bukenya
- 2002Without a TraceSeriesLuol Nimieri