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Nelsan Ellis

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: Acting
Born: 30 Nov 1977
Died: 8 Jul 2017
Place of birth: Harvey, Illinois, USA

Known for

The Help2011
The Butler2013

7.6

True Blood2008

The Stanford Prison Experiment2015

Actor
Director
Writer

True to the Game2017
Little Boxes2017
Roxanne Roxanne2017
The Stanford Prison Experiment2015
Get On Up2014
Gods Behaving Badly2013
The Butler2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist2013
Elementary2012
Elementary
Season 5
S5E1Folie à Deux
S5E10Pick Your Poison
S5E11Be My Guest
S5E14Rekt in Real Life
S5E16Fidelity (2)
S5E17The Ballad of Lady Frances
S5E18Dead Man's Tale
S5E2Worth Several Cities
S5E22Moving Targets
S5E5To Catch a Predator Predator
S5E7Bang Bang Shoot Chute
S5E9It Serves You Right to Suffer
The Help2011
Secretariat2010
The Soloist2009
RuPaul's Drag Race2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Season 7
S7E8Conjoined Queens
The Express2008
True Blood2008
True Blood
Season 3
S3E1Bad Blood
S3E10I Smell a Rat
S3E11Fresh Blood
S3E12Evil Is Going On
S3E2Beautifully Broken
S3E3It Hurts Me Too
S3E49 Crimes
S3E5Trouble
S3E6I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
S3E7Hitting the Ground
S3E8Night on the Sun
S3E9Everything Is Broken
Season 4
S4E1She's Not There
S4E10Burning Down the House
S4E11Soul of Fire
S4E12And When I Die
S4E2You Smell Like Dinner
S4E3If You Love Me, Why am I Dyin'?
S4E4I'm Alive and On Fire
S4E5Me and the Devil
S4E6I Wish I Was the Moon
S4E7Cold Grey Light of Dawn
S4E8Spellbound
S4E9Let's Get Out of Here
Season 5
S5E1Turn! Turn! Turn!
S5E10Gone, Gone, Gone
S5E11Sunset
S5E12Save Yourself
S5E2Authority Always Wins
S5E3Whatever I Am, You Made Me
S5E4We'll Meet Again
S5E5Let's Boot and Rally
S5E6Hopeless
S5E7In the Beginning
S5E8Somebody That I Used to Know
S5E9Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Season 6
S6E1Who Are You, Really?
S6E10Radioactive
S6E2The Sun
S6E3You're No Good
S6E4At Last
S6E5F*ck the Pain Away
S6E6Don't You Feel Me
S6E7In the Evening
S6E8Dead Meat
S6E9Life Matters
Season 7
S7E1Jesus Gonna Be Here
S7E10Thank You
S7E2I Found You
S7E3Fire in the Hole
S7E4Death is Not the End
S7E5Lost Cause
S7E6Karma
S7E7May Be the Last Time
S7E8Almost Home
S7E9Love Is to Die
The Inside2005
The Inside
Season 1
S1E1New Girl in Town
S1E10Little Girl Lost
S1E11The Perfect Couple
S1E12Gem
S1E13Skin and Bone
S1E2Old Wounds
S1E4Everything Nice
S1E5Loneliest Number
S1E6Thief of Hearts
S1E7Declawed
S1E9Aidan
Warm Springs2005
Veronica Mars2004
Veronica Mars
Season 3
S3E18I Know What You'll Do Next Summer
Without a Trace2002
Without a Trace
Season 6
S6E1Lost Boy