<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Nelsan Ellis (November 30, 1977--July 8, 2017) was an American film and television actor and playwright . </P> <P> He played Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO series True Blood and Bobby Byrd in the 2014 James Brown biopic Get on Up . </P> <P> Ellis was born in Harvey, Illinois, near Chicago . When Ellis and his siblings were younger, their mother, a single parent after her divorce from her husband, broke down over the death of her brother . Ellis and his siblings became wards of the state as a result . They were then raised in Bessemer, Alabama, by their grandmother . In Alabama, Ellis attended Jess Lanier High School for a year, then transferred to McAdory High School . He moved back to Illinois at age 15, where he lived with his maternal aunt, and in 1997 he graduated from Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois . </P>

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