Nelsan Ellis
Born in Harvey, Illinois, USA — Nov 30 1977• Died Jul 08 2017
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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.
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Elementary
Shinwell Johnson
Without a Trace
Luol Nimieri
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
Veronica Mars
Apollo Bukenya
True Blood
Lafayette Reynolds
The Help
Henry The Waiter
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jesse Fletcher
The Butler
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Inside
Carter Howard
Secretariat
Eddie Sweat
The Soloist
David Carter
Get On Up
Bobby Byrd
The Express
Will Davis, Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wainwright
Roxanne Roxanne
Mr. Lester
Little Boxes
Mack
True to the Game
Tyrik
Warm Springs
Roy Collier
Gods Behaving Badly
Dionysus
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