Acting credits
19
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Nelsan Ellis
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 14Series: 6Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 81697
IMDb ID: nm1734700
Known for: Acting
Born: November 30, 1977
Died: July 8, 2017
Age: 39
Place of birth: Harvey, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2002 - 2017
Years active: 16
Average TMDB rating: 7.03
Wikidata: Q40299
Also known as
Nelson Ellis
Other jobs
Director (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Nelsan Ellis.
5.8
True to the Game
as Tyrik
2017 Movie
6.1
Little Boxes
as Mack
2017 Movie
6.0
Roxanne Roxanne
as Mr. Lester
2017 Movie
6.8
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Jesse Fletcher
2015 Movie
6.8
Get On Up
as Bobby Byrd
2014 Movie
2.5
Gods Behaving Badly
as Dionysus
2013 Movie
7.3
The Butler
as Martin Luther King Jr.
2013 Movie
6.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Wainwright
2013 Movie
8.2
The Help
as Henry The Waiter
2011 Movie
7.4
Secretariat
as Eddie Sweat
2010 Movie
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Director
2010 Movie
6.7
The Soloist
as David Carter
2009 Movie
7.1
The Express
as Will Davis, Jr.
2008 Movie
6.6
Warm Springs
as Roy Collier
2005 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Nelsan Ellis.
7.6
Elementary
as Shinwell Johnson • 12 eps
2012 Series
7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.6
True Blood
as Lafayette Reynolds • 80 eps
2008 Series
7.3
The Inside
as Carter Howard • 13 eps
2005 Series
7.8
Veronica Mars
as Apollo Bukenya • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.2
Without a Trace
as Luol Nimieri • 1 eps
2002 Series