Acting

Nelsan Ellis

1977–2017 · Acting

64.7avg grm

5titles

#730best rank

best title · #730 on siteTrue Blood2008 · as Lafayette Reynolds · series64.1

Bio

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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2010s2 titles

Elementary2012 · as Shinwell Johnson · series63.5 S

Secretariat2010 · as Eddie Sweat66.2

2000s3 titles

The Express2008 · as Will Davis, Jr.65.9 T

True Blood2008 · as Lafayette Reynolds · series64.1 I

The Inside2005 · as Carter Howard · series64.0

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Nelsan Ellis

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born1977

died2017

known forActing

titles on site5

best title rank#730 · True Blood (2008)

avg GRM64.7

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.

Filmography

ranked on this site

2010s

2 titles

63.5Elementary2012 · as Shinwell Johnson · series S

66.2Secretariat2010 · as Eddie Sweat

2000s

3 titles

65.9The Express2008 · as Will Davis, Jr.T

64.1True Blood2008 · as Lafayette Reynolds · series I

64.0The Inside2005 · as Carter Howard · series

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