THE VAULT website went to "ground" back in August 2015 and hasn't posted anything since that time. However, upon hearing the news today of the passing of one of our favorites, Nelsan Ellis, we had to reopen the doors just [...]
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Category "Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette)"
NEWS: True Blood’s Cast latest gigs
NELSAN ELLIS Nelsan Ellis is in a new film, "The Standard Prison Experiment." Our flamboyant Lafayette from True Blood, gives a wonderfully understated performance as Jesse, an ex-con brought in to consult with the team about the reality of their experiment. [...]
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Nelsan Ellis film “Get on Up” Goes Digital
Nelsan Ellis' film, "Get On Up" is now available, via Digital HD December 9 and on DVD and Blu-ray January 6, 2015. In the film, Nelsan plays Billy Bird who was the man largely responsible for the career of James Brown and [...]
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Nelsan Ellis cast in “The Stanford Prison Experiment”
True Blood's Nelsan Ellis and Olivia Thirlby (Juno, Dredd) have joined the ensemble cast of The Stanford Prison Experiment. It's about the infamous 1971 psychological exercise in which college students exhibited shocking cruel and sadistic behavior when divided into camps [...]
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Nelsan Ellis throws first pitch at Chicago White Sox Game
True Blood's Nelsan Ellis throws the first pitch at the Chicago White Sox game in Chicago. See the video below where Nelsan throws a pitch and talks about coming to Chicago often to see his father and that he has an [...]
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Nelsan Ellis Joins the cast of “Bolden”as Bartley
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Nelsan Ellis and Michael McMillian to also attend Dragon Con
Nelsan Ellis and Michael McMillian to attend Dragon Con this year which takes place over Labor Day weekend August 29-August 31st 2014. We've already reported that Kristin Bauer van Straten is signed up to attend and Nelsan has previously been a guest, but this [...]
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Video: Nelsan Ellis on playing Bobby Bird in “Get On Up”
True Blood's Lafayette, Nelsan Ellis plays Billy Bird in the new bio-pic based on legendary singer, James Brown. In a video interview below from the 20th annual Essence Festival EURweb’s Lee Bailey caught up Taylor, Boseman, and co-star Nelsan Ellis (Bobby [...]
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Nelsan Ellis on True Blood and his new film: “Get On Up”
“True Blood” star Nelsan Ellis will be featured in the new James Brown film in the part of Bobbie Byrd, the man largely responsible for the career of groundbreaking, “Godfather of Soul and hardest working man in show business,” James [...]
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Nelsan Ellis Talks Lafayette’s future
True Blood's Nelsan Ellis tells THR about what’s upcoming for his character of Lafayette, his Beyonce inspiration and why series creator Alan Ball nearly didn’t cast him. Read a part of his interview below: What's your favorite thing about playing [...]
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