
Nelsan Ellis
Acting
Born: November 30, 1977Harvey, 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.
Known For
Filmography

True to the Game
Tyrik

Little Boxes
Mack

Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester

The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher

Get On Up
Bobby Byrd

Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus

The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright

The Help
Henry The Waiter

Secretariat
Eddie Sweat

The Soloist
David Carter

The Express
Will Davis, Jr.

Warm Springs
Roy Collier







