Person
Nicole Ari Parker
Acting · Born 1970-10-07 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Lillie Ivers
Chicago P.D.
Samantha Miller
Steve
Self
Sherri
Self - Guest
Empire
Giselle Sims-Barker
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Younger
Beth
Celebrity Family Feud
Self
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
Filmography
- 2023A Snowy Day in OaklandDr. LaTrice Monroe
- 2022SherriSelf - Guest
- 2022We Are Gathered Here TodayNancy Stone
- 2022And Just Like That... The DocumentarySelf
- 2022Safe RoomLila Jackson
- 2021And Just Like That…Lisa Todd Wexley
- 2019Tamron HallSelf - Guest
- 2018The RomanoffsCheryl Gowans
- 2018How It EndsPaula Sutherland
- 2017SteveSelf
- 2017DownsizedEbony
- 2017I'm Dying Up HereGloria
- 2017Time After TimeVanessa Anders
- 2016StarGiselle Simms
- 2016Almost ChristmasSonya
- 2015RosewoodKat
- 2015Celebrity Family FeudSelf
- 2015Lip Sync BattleSelf
- 2015YoungerBeth
- 2015EmpireGiselle Sims-Barker
- 2014RepentanceSophie
- 2014Chicago P.D.Samantha Miller
- 2013Secret Lives of Husbands and WivesPaula Cooke
- 2012RevolutionJustine Allenford
- 201135 and TickingZenobia
- 2010The Fran Drescher Show
- 2010The Deep EndSusan Oppenheim
- 2009Black DynamiteMahogany Black
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest
- 2009Pastor BrownTonya Copeland Brown
- 2009Imagine ThatTricia Danielson
- 2008Welcome Home Roscoe JenkinsLucinda Allen
- 2005The Tyra Banks Show
- 2005King's RansomAngela Drake
- 2004Second Time AroundRyan Muse
- 2003All of Us
- 2002Brown SugarReese Marie Wiggam Ellis
- 2001Dancing in SeptemberTomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
- 2000CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationLillie Ivers
- 2000Remember the TitansCarol Boone
- 2000106 & Park
- 2000Soul FoodTeri Joseph
- 2000The Loretta Claiborne StoryChristine Claiborne
- 1999Blue StreakMellisa Green
- 1999A Map of the WorldSherry
- 1999Loving JezebelFrances
- 1999Mind PreyWeather Karkinnon
- 1999Harlem AriaClarisse
- 1999200 CigarettesBridget
- 1998ExiledGeorgeanne Taylor
- 1998The Adventures of Sebastian ColeNurse Jenny
- 1998SparkNina
- 1997Boogie NightsBecky Barnett
- 1997The End of ViolenceAde
- 1997Subway StoriesSharon (segment "Honey-Getter")
- 1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' ManigaultWanda
- 1995StonewallFemale Draft Officer
- 1995DivasStephanie
- 1995The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in LoveEvie Roy
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