Nicole Ari Parker

Nicole Ari Parker (54)

1970-10-07 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe (born October 7, 1970) is an American actress and model. Early in her career she appeared in several critically-acclaimed independent films including The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), Boogie Nights (1997), 200 Cigarettes (1999), and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winner The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. She has starred in several television shows including Second Time Around, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Deep End; but her breakthrough television role was on Showtime6 drama Soul Food, which she starred in from 2000-2004. Her big screen credits include such popular films as Blue Streak (1999), Brown Sugar (2002) and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008). She is married to fellow model turned actor, Boris Kodjoe, and they have two children.

On Movies

  • A Snowy Day in Oakland
  • We Are Gathered Here Today
  • Safe Room
  • How It Ends
  • Downsized
  • Almost Christmas
  • Repentance
  • Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
  • 35 and Ticking
  • Black Dynamite
  • Pastor Brown
  • Imagine That
  • Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
  • King's Ransom
  • Brown Sugar
  • Dancing in September
  • Remember the Titans
  • The Loretta Claiborne Story
  • Blue Streak
  • A Map of the World
  • Loving Jezebel
  • Mind Prey
  • Harlem Aria
  • 200 Cigarettes
  • Exiled
  • The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
  • Spark
  • Boogie Nights
  • The End of Violence
  • Subway Stories
  • Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
  • Stonewall
  • Divas
  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

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