Nelsan Ellis

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

19

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-11-30

Day of death

2017-07-08 (39 years old)

Place of Birth

Harvey, Illinois, USA

Nelsan Ellis

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

  • Elementary

    Elementary

  • Without a Trace

    Without a Trace

  • RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

  • True Blood

    True Blood

  • Veronica Mars

    Veronica Mars

  • The Help

    The Help

  • The Butler

    The Butler

  • Secretariat

    Secretariat

  • Roxanne Roxanne

    Roxanne Roxanne

  • The Inside

    The Inside

  • Little Boxes

    Little Boxes

  • The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison Experiment

  • The Express

    The Express

  • The Soloist

    The Soloist

  • Get on Up

    Get on Up

  • True to the Game

    True to the Game

  • Warm Springs

    Warm Springs

  • Gods Behaving Badly

    Gods Behaving Badly

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    The Reluctant Fundamentalist