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

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The Help

2011

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The Butler

2013

★7.6

True Blood

2008

★7.6

Elementary

2012

★6.8

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015

★6.7

The Soloist

2009

★7.8

Veronica Mars

2004

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Secretariat

2010

★6.8

Get On Up

2014

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The Express

2008

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Without a Trace

2002

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2013

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Roxanne Roxanne

2017

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Little Boxes

2017