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Nelsan Ellis
Acting
Born: November 30, 1977
Harvey, Illinois, USA
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

The Help
as Henry The Waiter

The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.

The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher

Get on Up
as Bobby Byrd

Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat

The Soloist
as David Carter

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright

Warm Springs
as Roy Collier

Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester

The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.