Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe, also known as Nikki Kodjoe (born Nicole Ari Parker on October 7, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, who was briefly a model.
Parker is best known for playing the tough but compassionate attorney Teri Joseph in the Showtime television series Soul Food, which was based on the 1997 film of the same name.
In the series, she has showcased her singing voice in several episodes, but as of yet has not embraced this ability full-time careerwise. Parker also had a guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing a singer. She also had a lead role in the 1998 film Exiled: A Law & Order Movie.
Early in her career Nicole appeared in several critically-acclaimed independent films including The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Boogie Nights, 200 Cigarettes, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winner The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. She starred with her husband, model and actor Boris Kodjoe, in UPN's situation comedy Second Time Around.
She is of African American and Cherokee Indian ancestry.
The only child of Donald, a dentist and Susan, a health care entrepreneur.
Graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
(5 March 2005) Daughter, Sophie Tei Naaki Lee was born. Dad is Boris Kodjoe.
Married Boris Kodjoe in Gundelfingen, Germany.
On her wedding license document in German her name is written Nicole Ari Ofuatye-Kodjoe born Parker.
Second child, son Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, was born 31 October 2006.
