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Director
Nelsan Ellis
Acting
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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 81697
IMDb ID: nm1734700
Known for: Acting
Born: November 30, 1977
Died: July 8, 2017
Age: 39
Place of birth: Harvey, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2002 - 2017
Years active: 16
Average TMDB rating: 7.03
Wikidata: Q40299
Also known as
Nelson Ellis
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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.
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Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Nelsan Ellis.
as Henry The Waiter
The Help
2011 • Movie
as Eddie Sweat
Secretariat
2010 • Movie
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
2013 • Movie
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Express
2008 • Movie
as Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 • Movie
as Bobby Byrd
Get On Up
2014 • Movie
as David Carter
The Soloist
2009 • Movie
as Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 • Movie
as Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 • Movie
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Nelsan Ellis.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Nelsan Ellis.
as Henry The Waiter
The Help
2011 • Movie
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
2013 • Movie
as Eddie Sweat
Secretariat
2010 • Movie
as Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 • Movie
as Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 • Movie
as David Carter
The Soloist
2009 • Movie
as Bobby Byrd
Get On Up
2014 • Movie
as Roy Collier
Warm Springs
2005 • Movie
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Express
2008 • Movie
as Dionysus
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 • Movie
as Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 • Movie
as Tyrik
True to the Game
2017 • Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Nelsan Ellis.
as Self - Guest Judge • 1 eps
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 • Series
as Shinwell Johnson • 12 eps
Elementary
2012 • Series
as Luol Nimieri • 1 eps
Without a Trace
2002 • Series
as Lafayette Reynolds • 80 eps
True Blood
2008 • Series
as Apollo Bukenya • 1 eps
Veronica Mars
2004 • Series
as Carter Howard • 13 eps
The Inside
2005 • Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Nelsan Ellis.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Nelsan Ellis.
as Tyrik
True to the Game
2017 • Movie
as Mack
Little Boxes
2017 • Movie
as Mr. Lester
Roxanne Roxanne
2017 • Movie
as Jesse Fletcher
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 • Movie
as Bobby Byrd
Get On Up
2014 • Movie
as Dionysus
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 • Movie
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Butler
2013 • Movie
as Wainwright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 • Movie
as Henry The Waiter
The Help
2011 • Movie
as Eddie Sweat
Secretariat
2010 • Movie
as David Carter
The Soloist
2009 • Movie
as Will Davis, Jr.
The Express
2008 • Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Nelsan Ellis.
as Shinwell Johnson • 12 eps
Elementary
2012 • Series
as Self - Guest Judge • 1 eps
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 • Series
as Lafayette Reynolds • 80 eps
True Blood
2008 • Series
as Carter Howard • 13 eps
The Inside
2005 • Series
as Apollo Bukenya • 1 eps
Veronica Mars
2004 • Series
as Luol Nimieri • 1 eps
Without a Trace
2002 • Series