Personal Info
Nelson Ellis
Nelsan Ellis
Acting
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.
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Known For
Filmography
Movies
Little Boxes
as Mack
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
True to the Game
as Tyrik
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
