Nicole Ari Parker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

58

Gender

Female

Birthday

1970-10-07 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Nicole Ari Parker

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

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

  • Chicago P.D.

    Chicago P.D.

  • Younger

    Younger

  • Sherri

    Sherri

  • Empire

    Empire

  • The Tyra Banks Show

    The Tyra Banks Show

  • And Just Like That…

    And Just Like That…

  • Tamron Hall

    Tamron Hall

  • Rosewood

    Rosewood

  • Celebrity Family Feud

    Celebrity Family Feud

  • Lip Sync Battle

    Lip Sync Battle

  • Star

    Star

  • Exiled

    Exiled

  • Boogie Nights

    Boogie Nights

  • Repentance

    Repentance

  • Revolution

    Revolution

  • All of Us

    All of Us

  • Pastor Brown

    Pastor Brown

  • Remember the Titans

    Remember the Titans

  • Stonewall

    Stonewall

  • Imagine That

    Imagine That

  • Divas

    Divas

  • Blue Streak

    Blue Streak

  • Mind Prey

    Mind Prey

  • 200 Cigarettes

    200 Cigarettes

  • King's Ransom

    King's Ransom

  • The Romanoffs

    The Romanoffs

  • Loving Jezebel

    Loving Jezebel

  • How It Ends

    How It Ends

  • Spark

    Spark

  • Soul Food

    Soul Food

  • 106 & Park

    106 & Park

  • I'm Dying Up Here

    I'm Dying Up Here

  • Time After Time

    Time After Time

  • Brown Sugar

    Brown Sugar

  • Second Time Around

    Second Time Around

  • The Fran Drescher Show

    The Fran Drescher Show

  • Almost Christmas

    Almost Christmas

  • Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

  • The Deep End

    The Deep End

  • Subway Stories

    Subway Stories

  • Black Dynamite

    Black Dynamite

  • The End of Violence

    The End of Violence

  • And Just Like That... The Documentary

    And Just Like That... The Documentary

  • A Map of the World

    A Map of the World

  • 35 and Ticking

    35 and Ticking

  • Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

    The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

  • Safe Room

    Safe Room

  • The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

  • We Are Gathered Here Today

    We Are Gathered Here Today

  • The Loretta Claiborne Story

    The Loretta Claiborne Story

  • Dancing in September

    Dancing in September

  • A Snowy Day in Oakland

    A Snowy Day in Oakland

  • Harlem Aria

    Harlem Aria

  • Downsized

    Downsized

  • Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

    Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives