Nicole Ari Parker

Birthday: 1970-10-07
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2023-03-17 A Snowy Day in Oakland Dr. LaTrice Monroe
2022-08-16 We Are Gathered Here Today Nancy Stone
2022-01-15 Safe Room Lila Jackson
2018-07-13 How It Ends Paula Sutherland
2017-06-18 Downsized Ebony
2016-11-11 Almost Christmas Sonya
2014-02-28 Repentance Sophie
2013-01-01 Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives Paula Cooke
2011-05-20 35 and Ticking Zenobia
2009-10-16 Black Dynamite Mahogany Black
2009-06-26 Pastor Brown Tonya Copeland Brown
2009-06-19 Imagine That Tricia Danielson
2008-02-08 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Lucinda Allen
2005-04-22 King's Ransom Angela Drake
2002-10-05 Brown Sugar Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
2001-02-03 Dancing in September Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
2000-09-29 Remember the Titans Carol Boone
2000-01-16 The Loretta Claiborne Story Christine Claiborne
1999-09-17 Blue Streak Mellisa Green
1999-09-13 A Map of the World Sherry
1999-08-05 Loving Jezebel Frances
1999-03-22 Mind Prey Weather Karkinnon
1999-03-05 Harlem Aria Clarisse
1999-02-26 200 Cigarettes Bridget
1998-11-08 Exiled Georgeanne Taylor
1998-09-11 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Nurse Jenny
1998-01-16 Spark Nina
1997-10-10 Boogie Nights Becky Barnett
1997-09-12 The End of Violence Ade
1997-07-24 Subway Stories Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")
1996-11-23 Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault Wanda
1995-12-26 Stonewall Female Draft Officer
1995-09-19 Divas Stephanie
1995-06-16 The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love Evie Roy