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Nelsan Ellis
Acting
Born November 30, 1977 · Harvey, Illinois, USA
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 · 19 titles
Elementary
2012
Without a Trace
2002
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
True Blood
2008
Veronica Mars
2004
The Help
2011
The Inside
2005
The Butler
2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
Secretariat
2010
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
Get On Up
2014
The Soloist
2009
The Express
2008
Warm Springs
2005
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
Little Boxes
2017
True to the Game
2017