Nelsan Ellis

Personal Info

Birthday

November 30, 1977

Day of Death

2017-07-08

(39 years old)

Place of Birth

Harvey, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Nelson Ellis

Nelsan Ellis

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

Elementary

True Blood

Without a Trace

Veronica Mars

The Help

The Inside

The Butler

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Filmography

2017
True to the Game
as Tyrik
Little Boxes
as Mack
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
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
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