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Nelsan Ellis

Born 1977-11-30

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

True Blood 2008 · 7.9 The Stanford Prison Experiment 2015 · 6.9 The Soloist 2009 · 6.7 Secretariat 2010 · 7.2 Get on Up 2014 · 6.9 The Express 2008 · 7.2 The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2013 · 6.8 Little Boxes 2017 · 5.9 True to the Game 2017 · 5.3