Nelsan Ellis

Actor

Born: November 30, 1977
Died: July 8, 2017 (age 39)
From: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (14)

True to the Game (2017)
Tyrik
Little Boxes (2017)
Mack
Roxanne Roxanne (2017)
Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up (2014)
Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
Dionysus
The Butler (2013)
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
Wainwright
The Help (2011)
Henry The Waiter
Secretariat (2010)
Eddie Sweat
Page 36 (2010)
Director
The Soloist (2009)
David Carter
The Express (2008)
Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs (2005)
Roy Collier