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Nelsan Ellis Wife: Was the ‘True Blood’ Actor Married?
Elementary actor Nelsan Ellis has died. The former True Blood celebrity was just 39 years old. The news was confirmed by his manager, Emily Gerson Saines.
“Nelsan passed away after complications with heart failure. He was a great talent. And his words and presence will be forever missed,” Saines said in a remark, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ellis was notoriously intimate when it came to his personal life. Since he played a lgbtq+ character on the famous vampire fantasy series True Blood, fans have speculated about the actor’s sexuality. In past interviews, Ellis had been asked about this speculation and, support in 2010, Vibe caught up with him and he addressed the topic.
“I don’t answer that ask, ‘Are you gay or not,’ when it comes down to industry people. But if it’s a regular person asking me, that just says that maybe I’m doing a excellent job. But when a casting director or an agent asks me that question it takes on a deeper thing that says, ‘I can’t accept you’re doing this unless you are that,'” Ellis told Vibe.
In short, Ellis was not gay. In fact, he had a wife,
True Blood star Nelsan Ellis dies of heart failure aged 39, LGBT society pays tribute
Actor Nelsan Ellis, best recognizable for playing the character of Lafayette Reynolds on US TV series Real Blood, has died at the age of 39.
Key points:
- Nelsan Ellis portrayed dramatic, gay character Lafayette Reynolds on Genuine Blood
- The actor died from "complications of heart failure", his manager said
- He was scheduled to arrive at Australia's first LGBT Pop Customs expo in Melbourne next weekend
Ellis's manager, Emily Gerson Saines, confirmed the actor's death via an emailed statement on Saturday (local time).
The Hollywood Reporter, which was first to report Ellis's death, quoted her as saying the star died from complications of heart blunder, adding more facts would come to light in coming days.
The Illinois-born star, who studied at the famous Recent York performing arts school Juilliard, played the role of Lafayette on the HBO drama from 2008 to 2014, and more recently appeared in the CBS detective series Elementary. He was also a playwright and a director.
"Nelsan was a remarkable talent whose creativity never ceased to amaze me," Accurate
Late True Blood star mourned by LGBTI community
ACTOR Nelsan Ellis, established for his role as flashy gay character Lafayette Reynolds on True Blood, has passed away aged 39.
Ellis died from complication of heart failure, ABC News has reported.
He had been establish to appear at Queer Expo in Melbourne next weekend.
“We are extremely heartbroken to hear this morning that our guest and the incredible actor and person Nelsan Ellis has passed away,” said organisers on Facebook.
“We cannot express our sorrow and heartache at this news.”
Ellis is mourned by the LGBTI community after his iconic portrayal of a gay man of colour on True Blood.
In 2009, he said in an interview that although he was straight, his father disapproved of him playing a gay role.
“Truth of the matter is, he don’t want his son prancing around in lipstick and makeup, playing some homosexual dude,” he said.
Ellis is remembered as a champion of homosexual rights. He performed in scenes that challenged homophobia, and in 2014 criticised a fellow cast member on True Blood who quit rather than play his character in a gay affair with Ellis’s.
Fans have posted messages on social media remembering Ellis, and GLAAD twe
Hooker, you left way too soon.
I visualize that’s what True Blood’sLafayette Reynolds would say about the untimely death of Nelsan Ellis, the actor who created him. Ellis, a 2004 Juilliard graduate, died of heart failure at age 39, his manager said Saturday.
On True Blood, which aired on HBO from 2008 to 2014, Ellis brought to life one of the most significant depictions of queerness on television, in a series that bubbled with mad camp improbabilities. His short-order cook who moonlighted as a drug and vampire blood dealer was enticing and bawdy, femme and butch, learned and nation AF. He was open and unapologetic about his like of sex and the male shape while living in the tiny unreal town of Bon Temps, Louisiana — the type of place where it’s not necessarily protected to be homosexual, or black, and certainly not both at the alike time.
As Lafayette, Ellis expanded the country’s collective imagination of what a gay black man could look, sound and act like, starting just months before California passed Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, and years before President Barack Obama announced an “evolution” in his thinking about gay rights. And for queer dark people, he