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Nelsan Ellis

Acting · Born November 30, 1977 · 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.

Movies with Nelsan Ellis

• The Help (2011) — Henry The Waiter
• The Butler (2013) — Martin Luther King Jr.
• Secretariat (2010) — Eddie Sweat
• The Soloist (2009) — David Carter
• The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) — Jesse Fletcher
• Get On Up (2014) — Bobby Byrd
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) — Wainwright
• The Express (2008) — Will Davis, Jr.
• Roxanne Roxanne (2017) — Mr. Lester
• Warm Springs (2005) — Roy Collier
• True to the Game (2017) — Tyrik
• Gods Behaving Badly (2013) — Dionysus

TV shows with Nelsan Ellis

• Elementary (2012) — Shinwell Johnson
• True Blood (2008) — Lafayette Reynolds
• The Inside (2005) — Carter Howard