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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
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
Get on Up
as Bobby Byrd
The Soloist
as David Carter
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
