Nelsan Ellis

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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.

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Total trailers found: 14

The Help Trailer (2011)

09 August 2011

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared.

Warm Springs Trailer (2005)

30 April 2005

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

Page 36 Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

To save his ailing son from certain death, a father voluntarily sells himself into slavery through an underground corporation.

Little Boxes Trailer (2017)

14 April 2017

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living.

The Butler Trailer (2013)

16 August 2013

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

True to the Game Trailer (2017)

08 September 2017

Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young girl from the projects of Philly.

Secretariat Trailer (2010)

20 August 2010

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge.

The Stanford Prison Experiment Trailer (2015)

17 July 2015

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand.

The Express Trailer (2008)

10 October 2008

Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Get on Up Trailer (2014)

01 August 2014

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

The Soloist Trailer (2009)

24 April 2009

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

Roxanne Roxanne Trailer (2017)

22 January 2017

The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Trailer (2013)

24 April 2013

In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Gods Behaving Badly Trailer (2013)

13 November 2013

Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.