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