Born 1977 (age 39) · Harvey, Illinois, USA
Appears in 20 titles

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

The Help
8.2
The Help
2011
as Henry The Waiter
The Butler
7.3
The Butler
2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015
as Jesse Fletcher
The Soloist
6.7
The Soloist
2009
as David Carter
Secretariat
7.4
Secretariat
2010
as Eddie Sweat
Get On Up
6.8
Get On Up
2014
as Bobby Byrd
The Express
7.1
The Express
2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
6.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
as Wainwright
Roxanne Roxanne
6.0
Roxanne Roxanne
2017
as Mr. Lester
Little Boxes
6.1
Little Boxes
2017
as Mack
True to the Game
5.8
True to the Game
2017
as Tyrik
Warm Springs
6.6
Warm Springs
2005
as Roy Collier
Gods Behaving Badly
2.5
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Dionysus