Acting

Nicole Ari Parker

Born 1970-10-07 · 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.

Credits

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Misty Green
as Erica
2026
A Snowy Day in Oakland
as Dr. LaTrice Monroe
2023
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
as Nancy Stone
2022
And Just Like That... The Documentary
as Self
2022
Safe Room
as Lila Jackson
2022
And Just Like That…
as Lisa Todd Wexley
2021
The Tamron Hall Show
as Self - Guest
2019
The Romanoffs
as Cheryl Gowans
2018
How It Ends
as Paula Sutherland
2018
Steve
as Self
2017
Downsized
as Ebony
2017
I'm Dying Up Here
as Gloria
2017
Time After Time
as Vanessa Anders
2017
Star
as Giselle Simms
2016
Almost Christmas
as Sonya
2016
Rosewood
as Kat
2015
Celebrity Family Feud
as Self
2015
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
Younger
as Beth
2015
Empire
as Giselle Sims-Barker
2015
Repentance
as Sophie
2014
Chicago P.D.
as Samantha Miller
2014
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
as Paula Cooke
2013
Revolution
as Justine Allenford
2012
35 and Ticking
as Zenobia
2011
The Fran Drescher Show
2010
The Deep End
as Susan Oppenheim
2010
Black Dynamite
as Mahogany Black
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
Pastor Brown
as Tonya Copeland Brown
2009
Imagine That
as Tricia Danielson
2009
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
as Lucinda Allen
2008
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
King's Ransom
as Angela Drake
2005
Second Time Around
as Ryan Muse
2004
All of Us
2003
Brown Sugar
as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
2002
Dancing in September
as Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Lillie Ivers
2000
Remember the Titans
as Carol Boone
2000
106 & Park
2000
Soul Food
as Teri Joseph
2000
The Loretta Claiborne Story
as Christine Claiborne
2000
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
Exiled
as Georgeanne Taylor
1998
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
as Nurse Jenny
1998
Spark
as Nina
1998
Boogie Nights
as Becky Barnett
1997
The End of Violence
as Ade
1997
Subway Stories
as Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")
1997
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Wanda
1996
Stonewall
as Female Draft Officer
1995
Divas
as Stephanie
1995
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
as Evie Roy
1995