Nelsan Ellis

Nelsan Ellis (39)

1977-11-30 - 2017-07-08 | Harvey, Illinois, USA

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. ​

On Movies

  • True to the Game
  • Little Boxes
  • Roxanne Roxanne
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Get on Up
  • Gods Behaving Badly
  • The Butler
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • The Help
  • Secretariat
  • The Soloist
  • The Express
  • Warm Springs

Movies as Director

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