Person
- Born
- 1977-11-30
- Died
- 2017-07-08
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Film & TV
Acting · 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. 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.
Known for
- Little Boxes — Mack2017
- True to the Game — Tyrik2017
- Roxanne Roxanne — Mr. Lester2017
- The Stanford Prison Experiment — Jesse Fletcher2015
- Get On Up — Bobby Byrd2014
- The Butler — Martin Luther King Jr.2013
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Wainwright2013
- Gods Behaving Badly — Dionysus2013
- Elementary — Shinwell Johnson2012
- The Help — Henry The Waiter2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 32
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,348x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,232x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,723x
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,296x
- VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISM OF SINGLE CRYSTAL GROWTH
· 1964 · cited 6,258x
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Key dates
- Born
- 30 November 1977
- Died
- 8 July 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ellis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harvey
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Nelsan Ellis at True Blood premiere party.jpg
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Connections
Categories
1977 births2017 deaths20th-century African-American male actors20th-century American male actors21st-century African-American male actors21st-century American male actorsActors from Jefferson County, AlabamaAlcohol-related deaths in New York CityAmerican male film actorsAmerican male television actorsDrug-related deaths in New York CityJuilliard School alumni