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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.
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
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 | |
| 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 | Fran Drescher Show (2010) (TV Series) |
| 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 | The Tyra Banks Show (TV Series) |
| 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 | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole · as Nurse Jenny |
| 1998 | Spark · as Nina |
| 1997 | Boogie Nights · as Becky Barnett |
| 1997 | The End of Violence · as Ade |
| 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 | The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love · as Evie Roy |
| 1993 | Other Women's Children · as Marcelle |