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