Acting
Nicole Ari Parker
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
Misty Green
Film · 2026
Celebrity Weakest Link
Series · 2025
A Snowy Day in Oakland
Film · 2023
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Film · 2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
Film · 2022
Safe Room
Film · 2022
Sherri
Series · 2022
And Just Like That…
Series · 2021
The Tamron Hall Show
Series · 2019
How It Ends
Film · 2018
The Romanoffs
Series · 2018
Downsized
Film · 2017
Time After Time
Series · 2017
I'm Dying Up Here
Series · 2017
Steve
Series · 2017
Almost Christmas
Film · 2016
Star
Series · 2016
Younger
Series · 2015
Lip Sync Battle
Series · 2015
Rosewood
Series · 2015
Empire
Series · 2015
Celebrity Family Feud
Series · 2015
Repentance
Film · 2014
Chicago P.D.
Series · 2014
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
Film · 2013
Revolution
Series · 2012
35 and Ticking
Film · 2011
The Deep End
Series · 2010
The Fran Drescher Show
Series · 2010
Pastor Brown
Film · 2009
Imagine That
Film · 2009
Black Dynamite
Film · 2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Film · 2008
King's Ransom
Film · 2005
The Tyra Banks Show
Series · 2005
Second Time Around
Series · 2004
All of Us
Series · 2003
Brown Sugar
Film · 2002
Dancing in September
Film · 2001
Remember the Titans
Film · 2000
The Loretta Claiborne Story
Film · 2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Series · 2000
106 & Park
Series · 2000
Soul Food
Series · 2000
Blue Streak
Film · 1999
200 Cigarettes
Film · 1999
Loving Jezebel
Film · 1999
Harlem Aria
Film · 1999
A Map of the World
Film · 1999
Mind Prey
Film · 1999
Spark
Film · 1998
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Film · 1998
Exiled
Film · 1998
Boogie Nights
Film · 1997
The End of Violence
Film · 1997
Subway Stories
Film · 1997
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Film · 1996
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Film · 1995
Divas
Film · 1995
Stonewall
Film · 1995