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Nelsan Ellis

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American actor (1977-2017)

United StatesActorsLived 1977 to 2017 · aged 39
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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.

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Ellis at the International Comic-Con San Diego with (l to r) Kevin Alejandro, Ellis, Deborah Ann Woll, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Stephen Moyer, and Anna Paquin to promote True Blood in 2011.Ellis at the International Comic-Con San Diego with (l to r) Kevin Alejandro, Ellis, Deborah Ann Woll, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Stephen Moyer, and Anna Paquin to promote True Blood in 2011.

Filmography 14

The Help2011 · ★ 8.2
The Butler2013 · ★ 7.3
The Stanford Prison Experiment2015 · ★ 6.8
Secretariat2010 · ★ 7.4
The Soloist2009 · ★ 6.7
Get On Up2014 · ★ 6.8
The Express2008 · ★ 7.1
The Reluctant Fundamentalist2013 · ★ 6.6
Roxanne Roxanne2017 · ★ 6.0
Little Boxes2017 · ★ 6.2
True to the Game2017
Warm Springs2005
Gods Behaving Badly2013
Page 362010

21 credits on file

Television 6

Elementary2012
Without a Trace2002
True Blood2008
Veronica Mars2004
RuPaul's Drag Race2009
The Inside2005

Connected to Nelsan 6

Jane AlexanderAlso in Warm Springs (2005)Jeff HillerAlso in Gods Behaving Badly (2013)Ad-RockAlso in Roxanne Roxanne (2017)Sydney Tamiia PoitierAlso in Page 36 (2010)Moisés AriasAlso in The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)Cary Joji FukunagaAlso in Little Boxes (2017)

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
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Lived 1977 to 2017 · aged 39
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