
Nicole Ari Parker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 7, 1970
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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 2026
as Erica

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

200 Cigarettes 1999
as Bridget

Exiled 1998
as Georgeanne Taylor

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole 1998
as Nurse Jenny

Spark 1998
as Nina

Boogie Nights 1997
as Becky Barnett

The End of Violence 1997
as Ade

Subway Stories 1997
as Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault 1996
as Wanda

Stonewall 1995
as Female Draft Officer

Divas 1995
as Stephanie

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love 1995
as Evie Roy
Credits from TMDB.