Known ForActing

GenderMale

Age39

Birth DateNovember 30, 1977

Place of BirthHarvey, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Nelson Ellis

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Nelsan Ellis

November 30, 1977 – 2017

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.

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Elementary

2012

Without a Trace

2002

RuPaul's Drag Race

2009

Veronica Mars

2004

True Blood

2008

The Help

2011

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015

The Inside

2005

The Butler

2013

Secretariat

2010

Get On Up

2014

The Soloist

2009

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2013

The Express

2008

Warm Springs

2005

Nelsan Ellis

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