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Nicole Ari Parker

Actor, Producer
Born October 7, 1970 (53 years)
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
  • Remember the Titans
  • Boogie Nights
  • Blue Streak
  • How It Ends
  • And Just Like That...
  • Imagine That
  • Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
  • Brown Sugar
  • Soul Food
  • Almost Christmas
  • Time After Time (2017)
  • 35 and Ticking
  • Repentance
  • Dancing in September
  • King's Ransom
  • A Snowy Day in Oakland
  • Safe Space
  • Pastor Brown
  • The Deep End
  • Exiled
  • Loving Jezebel
  • Downsized
  • Divas

Filmography

2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland · as Dr. Latrice Monroe
2022
The Best Man: The Final Chapters (TV Series) · as Xiomara Amani
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today · as Nancy Stone
2022
Safe Space · as Lila Jackson
2021
And Just Like That... (TV Series) · as Lisa Todd Wexley
2018
The Romanoffs (TV Series) · as Cheryl Gowans
2018
How It Ends · as Paula Sutherland
2017
Downsized · as Ebony
2017
I'm Dying Up Here (TV Series) · as Gloria
2017
Time After Time (2017) (TV Series) · as Vanessa Anders
2016
Star (TV Series) · as Giselle Simms
2016
Almost Christmas · as Sonya
2015
Rosewood (TV Series) · as Kat
2015
Younger (TV Series) · as Beth
2015
Empire (2015) (TV Series) · as Giselle Sims-Barker
2014
Murder in the First (TV Series) · as District Attorney Jacqueline Perez
2014
Chicago P.D. (TV Series) · as Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller
2013
Repentance · as Sophie
2012
Revolution (TV Series) · as Secretary Justine Allenford
2011
35 and Ticking · as Zenobia
2011
Let's Stay Together (TV Series) · as Renee
2010
2010
The Deep End (TV Series) · as Susan Oppenheim
2009
Black Dynamite · as Mahogany Black
2009
Pastor Brown · as Tonya Copeland Brown
2009
Imagine That · as Tricia Danielson
2008
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins · as Lucinda Allen
2005
2005
King's Ransom · as Angela Drake
2004
Second Time Around (2004) (TV Series) · as Ryan Muse
2003
All of Us (TV Series)
2002
Brown Sugar · as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) · as Lillie Ivers
2000
Remember the Titans · as Carol Boone
2000
106 & Park (TV Series)
2000
Soul Food (TV Series) · as Teri Joseph
2000
Dancing in September · as Tomasina 'tommy' Crawford
2000
The Loretta Claiborne Story · as Christine Claiborne
1999
Blue Streak · as Mellisa Green
1999
A Map of the World · as Sherry
1999
Loving Jezebel · as Frances
1999
Mind Prey · as Weather Karkinnon
1999
Harlem Aria · as Clarisse
1999
200 Cigarettes · as Bridget
1999
Mute Love · as Mavis
1998
Exiled · as Georgeanne Taylor
1998
1998
Spark · as Nina
1997
Boogie Nights · as Becky Barnett
1997
1997
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground · as Sharon (segment "honey-Getter")
1996
1996
Cosby (TV Series) · as Rebecca
1995
Divas · as Stephanie
1995
Stonewall · as Female Draft Officer
1995
1993
Other Women's Children · as Marcelle

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