Actor

Nelsan Ellis

Birthday: November 30, 1977

Born in: Harvey, 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.

Movie Credits

True to the Game (2017) as Tyrik
Age: 39
Little Boxes (2017) as Mack
Age: 39
Roxanne Roxanne (2017) as Mr. Lester
Age: 39
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) as Jesse Fletcher
Age: 37
Get On Up (2014) as Bobby Byrd
Age: 36
Gods Behaving Badly (2013) as Dionysus
Age: 35
The Butler (2013) as Martin Luther King Jr.
Age: 35
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) as Wainwright
Age: 35
The Help (2011) as Henry The Waiter
Age: 33
Secretariat (2010) as Eddie Sweat
Age: 32
The Soloist (2009) as David Carter
Age: 31
The Express (2008) as Will Davis, Jr.
Age: 30
Warm Springs (2005) as Roy Collier
Age: 27