Nicole Ari Parker
Born Oct 7, 1970 · 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.
Known for
Lanterns
2026
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
Safe Room
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
And Just Like That…
2021
The Romanoffs
2018
How It Ends
2018
I'm Dying Up Here
2017
Time After Time
2017
Downsized
2017
Star
2016
Almost Christmas
2016
Empire
2015
Younger
2015
Rosewood
2015
Chicago P.D.
2014
Repentance
2014
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
2013
Revolution
2012
35 and Ticking
2011
The Deep End
2010
The Fran Drescher Show
2010
Imagine That
2009
Black Dynamite
2009
Pastor Brown
2009
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
King's Ransom
2005
All of Us
2003
Brown Sugar
2002
Dancing in September
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Remember the Titans
2000
106 & Park
2000
Soul Food
2000
The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000
Blue Streak
1999
200 Cigarettes
1999
Mind Prey
1999
A Map of the World
1999
Harlem Aria
1999
Loving Jezebel
1999
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998
Exiled
1998
Spark
1998
Boogie Nights
1997
The End of Violence
1997
Subway Stories
1997
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
1995
Stonewall
1995
Divas
1995