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.
Filmography
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
as Dr. LaTrice Monroe
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
as Nancy Stone
And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022
as Self
Safe Room
2022
as Lila Jackson
How It Ends
2018
as Paula Sutherland
Downsized
2017
as Ebony
Almost Christmas
2016
as Sonya
Repentance
2014
as Sophie
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
2013
as Paula Cooke
35 and Ticking
2011
as Zenobia
Black Dynamite
2009
as Mahogany Black
Pastor Brown
2009
as Tonya Copeland Brown
Imagine That
2009
as Tricia Danielson
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008
as Lucinda Allen
King's Ransom
2005
as Angela Drake
Brown Sugar
2002
as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
Dancing in September
2001
as Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
Remember the Titans
2000
as Carol Boone
The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000
as Christine Claiborne
Blue Streak
1999
as Mellisa Green
A Map of the World
1999
as Sherry
Loving Jezebel
1999
as Frances
Mind Prey
1999
as Weather Karkinnon
Harlem Aria
1999
as Clarisse