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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

21

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-11-30

Day of Death

2017-07-08 (40 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

Acting

The Soloist

2009

The Soloist

as

David Carter

Secretariat

2010

Secretariat

as

Eddie Sweat

Get on Up

2014

Get on Up

as

Bobby Byrd

The Butler

2013

The Butler

as

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment

as

Jesse Fletcher

Little Boxes

2017

Little Boxes

as

Mack

The Help

2011

The Help

as

Henry The Waiter

True to the Game

2017

True to the Game

as

Tyrik

Roxanne Roxanne

2017

Roxanne Roxanne

as

Mr. Lester

The Express

2008

The Express

as

Will Davis, Jr.

Warm Springs

2005

Warm Springs

as

Roy Collier

Gods Behaving Badly

2013

Gods Behaving Badly

as

Dionysus

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars

as

Apollo Bukenya

Without a Trace

Without a Trace

as

Luol Nimieri

The Inside

The Inside

as

Carter Howard

True Blood

True Blood

as

Lafayette Reynolds

Elementary

Elementary

as

Shinwell Johnson

RuPaul's Drag Race

RuPaul's Drag Race

as

Self - Guest Judge

Production

Crew

Directing

Page 36

2010

Page 36

as