Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
November 30, 1977
Died
July 8, 2017
Age
39
Place of Birth
Harvey, Illinois, USA
Popularity
1.5
Nelsan Ellis
Acting
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.
Also known as
Nelson Ellis
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Known For
7.6
Elementary
2012 · TV
7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · TV
7.2
Without a Trace
2002 · TV
7.6
True Blood
2008 · TV
7.8
Veronica Mars
2004 · TV
8.2
The Help
2011 · Movie
7.3
The Butler
2013 · Movie
7.4
Secretariat
2010 · Movie
7.3
The Inside
2005 · TV
6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Movie
6.7
The Soloist
2009 · Movie
6.8
Get On Up
2014 · Movie
Filmography
2017
True to the Game
Movie · Tyrik
5.8
2017
Little Boxes
Movie · Mack
6.2
2017
Roxanne Roxanne
Movie · Mr. Lester
6.0
2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Movie · Jesse Fletcher
6.8
2014
Get On Up
Movie · Bobby Byrd
6.8
2013
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie · Dionysus
2.5
2013
The Butler
Movie · Martin Luther King Jr.
7.3
2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Movie · Wainwright
6.6
2012
Elementary
TV · Shinwell Johnson
7.6
2011
The Help
Movie · Henry The Waiter
8.2
2010
Secretariat
Movie · Eddie Sweat
7.4
2009
The Soloist
Movie · David Carter
6.7
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV · Self - Guest Judge
7.5
2008
The Express
Movie · Will Davis, Jr.
7.2
2008
True Blood
TV · Lafayette Reynolds
7.6
2005
The Inside
TV · Carter Howard
7.3
2005
Warm Springs
Movie · Roy Collier
6.6
2004
Veronica Mars
TV · Apollo Bukenya
7.8
2002
Without a Trace
TV · Luol Nimieri
7.2