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

  • RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

  • True Blood

    True Blood

  • Without a Trace

    Without a Trace

  • Elementary

    Elementary

  • Veronica Mars

    Veronica Mars

  • The Help

    The Help

  • The Butler

    The Butler

  • The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison Experiment

  • Roxanne Roxanne

    Roxanne Roxanne

  • The Inside

    The Inside

  • Secretariat

    Secretariat

  • Gods Behaving Badly

    Gods Behaving Badly

  • Get on Up

    Get on Up

  • True to the Game

    True to the Game

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  • The Express

    The Express

  • The Soloist

    The Soloist

  • Warm Springs

    Warm Springs

  • Little Boxes

    Little Boxes