Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellisis an American film and television actor and playwright. He is well known for his role as Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO series True Blood, which he played from 2008 until the series' completion in 2014, and most recently for starring as Bobby Byrd in the James Brown biopic, Get On Up...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth30 November 1978
CityHarvey, IL
CountryUnited States of America
scene gravity
I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
art school desire
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
blood know-how knows
With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.
acting
I'd always dabbled in acting.
quiet wanted ifs
I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
military
But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.
makeup land
Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.