# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelsan-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:50:31.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nelsan-ellis"
name: "Nelsan Ellis"
slug: "nelsan-ellis"
description: "Nelsan Ellis was an American actor. He achieved critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO television series True Blood (2008–2014), for which he won a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy, among other accolades. He also starred as Shinwell Johnson in Elementary from 2016 to 2017, and played a variety of guest roles on television."
tagline: "American actor (1977–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nelsan_Ellis_at_True_Blood_premiere_party.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-11-30"
deathDate: "2017-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.326525024641332
  historical:           23.746716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1734700/"
    handle:    "nm1734700"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump