Nelsan Ellis
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1977, Harvey, Illinois, USA
- Died
- July 8, 2017
- Movies
- 14
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2017 | True to the Game | Tyrik |
| 2017 | Little Boxes | Mack |
| 2017 | Roxanne Roxanne | Mr. Lester |
| 2015 | The Stanford Prison Experiment | Jesse Fletcher |
| 2014 | Get On Up | Bobby Byrd |
| 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly | Dionysus |
| 2013 | The Butler | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 2013 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Wainwright |
| 2011 | The Help | Henry The Waiter |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Eddie Sweat |
| 2009 | The Soloist | David Carter |
| 2008 | The Express | Will Davis, Jr. |
| 2005 | Warm Springs | Roy Collier |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2010 | Page 36 | Director |
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