2011Winner
Best Performance
The Help
Nelsan Ellis
Actor · Director · Writer
Harvey, Illinois, USA
November 30, 1977
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2013Nominee
Best Performance
The Butler
2009Nominee
Best Performance
The Soloist
Career Highlights
2015Highlight
Best Performance
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2010Highlight
Best Performance
Secretariat
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The Help
The Butler
The Soloist