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

• 2026Misty Green — Erica
• 2023A Snowy Day in Oakland — Dr. LaTrice Monroe
• 2022Safe Room — Lila Jackson
• 2022We Are Gathered Here Today — Nancy Stone
• And Just Like That… — Lisa Todd Wexley
• 2018How It Ends — Paula Sutherland
• The Romanoffs — Cheryl Gowans
• 2017Downsized — Ebony
• I'm Dying Up Here — Gloria
• Time After Time — Vanessa Anders
• 2016Almost Christmas — Sonya
• Star — Giselle Simms
• Empire — Giselle Sims-Barker
• Rosewood — Kat
• Younger — Beth
• Chicago P.D. — Samantha Miller
• 2014Repentance — Sophie
• 2013Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives — Paula Cooke
• Revolution — Justine Allenford
• 201135 and Ticking — Zenobia
• The Deep End — Susan Oppenheim
• The Fran Drescher Show
• 2009Black Dynamite — Mahogany Black
• 2009Imagine That — Tricia Danielson
• 2009Pastor Brown — Tonya Copeland Brown
• 2008Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins — Lucinda Allen
• 2005King's Ransom — Angela Drake
• The Tyra Banks Show
• Second Time Around — Ryan Muse
• All of Us
• 2002Brown Sugar — Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
• 2001Dancing in September — Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
• 106 & Park
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Lillie Ivers
• 2000Remember the Titans — Carol Boone
• Soul Food — Teri Joseph
• 2000The Loretta Claiborne Story — Christine Claiborne
• 1999200 Cigarettes — Bridget
• 1999A Map of the World — Sherry
• 1999Blue Streak — Mellisa Green
• 1999Harlem Aria — Clarisse
• 1999Loving Jezebel — Frances
• 1999Mind Prey — Weather Karkinnon
• 1998Exiled — Georgeanne Taylor
• 1998Spark — Nina
• 1998The Adventures of Sebastian Cole — Nurse Jenny
• 1997Boogie Nights — Becky Barnett
• 1997Subway Stories — Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")
• 1997The End of Violence — Ade
• 1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault — Wanda
• 1995Divas — Stephanie
• 1995Stonewall — Female Draft Officer
• 1995The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love — Evie Roy

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2022And Just Like That... The Documentary — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Steve — Self
• Celebrity Family Feud — Self
• Lip Sync Battle — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest