
November 30, 1977 · 48 years old
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…

Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.

A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.

In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

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

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

A young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

An interracial family struggles to adjust when they move from New York City to a small, predominately white town in Washington State.

A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia.