Nelsan Ellis

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Nelsan Ellis

Born 30 November 1977 Died 8 July 2017, aged 39 Harvey, Illinois, USA TMDB ↗

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.

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The numbers

Computed from the record
24age in their first credit on record (2002)
15years on screen and counting
3credits in 2017, their busiest year
18dated credits on record
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Movie credits

Newest first
True to the Game poster Age: 39

True to the Game

2017
as Tyrik
Little Boxes poster Age: 39

Little Boxes

2017
as Mack
Roxanne Roxanne poster Age: 39

Roxanne Roxanne

2017
as Mr. Lester
The Stanford Prison Experiment poster Age: 37

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015
as Jesse Fletcher
Get On Up poster Age: 36

Get On Up

2014
as Bobby Byrd
Gods Behaving Badly poster Age: 35

Gods Behaving Badly

2013
as Dionysus
The Butler poster Age: 35

The Butler

2013
as Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist poster Age: 35

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2013
as Wainwright
The Help poster Age: 33

The Help

2011
as Henry The Waiter
Secretariat poster Age: 32

Secretariat

2010
as Eddie Sweat
The Soloist poster Age: 31

The Soloist

2009
as David Carter
The Express poster Age: 30

The Express

2008
as Will Davis, Jr.
Warm Springs poster Age: 27

Warm Springs

2005
as Roy Collier
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TV credits

Newest first
Elementary poster Age: 34

Elementary

2012
as Shinwell Johnson
True Blood poster Age: 30

True Blood

2008
as Lafayette Reynolds
The Inside poster Age: 27

The Inside

2005
as Carter Howard
Veronica Mars poster Age: 26

Veronica Mars

2004
as Apollo Bukenya
Without a Trace poster Age: 24

Without a Trace

2002
as Luol Nimieri
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