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Nelsan Ellis
Actor
Died July 8, 2017 (39 years)
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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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.
Filmography
| 2017 | Roxanne Roxanne · as Mr. Lester |
| 2017 | True to the Game · as Tyrik |
| 2016 | Little Boxes · as Mack |
| 2015 | The Stanford Prison Experiment · as Jesse Fletcher |
| 2014 | Get on Up · as Bobby Byrd |
| 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly · as Dionysus |
| 2013 | The Butler · as Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 2012 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist · as Wainwright |
| 2012 | Elementary (TV Series) · as Shinwell Johnson |
| 2011 | The Help · as Henry The Waiter |
| 2010 | Secretariat · as Eddie Sweat |
| 2009 | The Soloist · as David Carter |
| 2008 | The Express · as Will Davis, Jr. |
| 2008 | True Blood (TV Series) · as Lafayette Reynolds |
| 2005 | The Inside (TV Series) · as Carter Howard |
| 2005 | Warm Springs · as Roy Collier |
| 2004 | Veronica Mars (TV Series) · as Apollo Bukenya |
| 2002 | Without a Trace (TV Series) · as Luol Nimieri |