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Nelsan Ellis

Acting · Born November 30, 1977 · 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. ​

Nelsan Ellis movies and shows

  • RuPaul's Drag Race2009
  • Elementary2012
  • Without a Trace2002
  • True Blood2008
  • Veronica Mars2004
  • The Help2011
  • The Inside2005
  • The Butler2013
  • Secretariat2010
  • Get On Up2014
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment2015
  • The Soloist2009
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist2013
  • The Express2008
  • True to the Game2017
  • Warm Springs2005
  • Roxanne Roxanne2017
  • Gods Behaving Badly2013
  • Little Boxes2017
  • Page 362010