Acting
Nelsan Ellis
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Born
30 November 1977
Died
8 July 2017 (aged 39)
Birthplace
Harvey, Illinois, USA
Also known as Nelson Ellis
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
Filmography
Little Boxes
as Mack
True to the Game
as Tyrik
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
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Director, Story
The Soloist
as David Carter
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier