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

David Carter

The Soloist

Eddie Sweat

Secretariat

Bobby Byrd

Get on Up

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Butler

Jesse Fletcher

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Mack

Little Boxes

Henry The Waiter

The Help

Tyrik

True to the Game

Wainwright

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mr. Lester

Roxanne Roxanne

Will Davis, Jr.

The Express

Roy Collier

Warm Springs

Dionysus

Gods Behaving Badly