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Nelsan Ellis
Harvey, Illinois, USA
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…
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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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2017
True to the Game
Movie Tyrik
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2017
Little Boxes
Movie Mack
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2017
Roxanne Roxanne
Movie Mr. Lester
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2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Movie Jesse Fletcher
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2014
Get On Up
Movie Bobby Byrd
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2013
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie Dionysus
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2013
The Butler
Movie Martin Luther King Jr.
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2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Movie Wainwright
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2012
Elementary
TV show Shinwell Johnson
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2011
The Help
Movie Henry The Waiter
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2010
Secretariat
Movie Eddie Sweat
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2010
Page 36
Movie Director
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2009
The Soloist
Movie David Carter
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2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2008
The Express
Movie Will Davis, Jr.
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2008
True Blood
TV show Lafayette Reynolds
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2005
The Inside
TV show Carter Howard
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2005
Warm Springs
Movie Roy Collier
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2004
Veronica Mars
TV show Apollo Bukenya
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2002
Without a Trace
TV show Luol Nimieri
