Nelsan Ellis

Acting

Nelsan Ellis

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 30, 1977 (47 years old)

Nelsan Ellis

Known For

True to the Game
1h 48m
DOLBY
Movie 2017

True to the Game

Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to...

Little Boxes
1h 24m
DOLBY
Movie 2017

Little Boxes

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the...

Roxanne Roxanne
1h 38m
DOLBY
Movie 2017

Roxanne Roxanne

The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in...

The Stanford Prison Experiment
2h 2m
DOLBY
Movie 2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology...

The Help
2h 26m
DOLBY
Movie 2011

The Help

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent...

The Soloist
1h 49m
DOLBY
Movie 2009

The Soloist

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while...

The Express
2h 10m
DOLBY
Movie 2008

The Express

Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis,...

True Blood
80 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2008

True Blood

Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires...

The Inside
13 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2005

The Inside

The Inside is an American crime drama television series created...

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelsan Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​