Nicole Ari Parker

Born: 1970-10-07

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.


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as Becky Barnett
Released: 1997-10-10

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming,...

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as Mellisa Green
Released: 1999-09-17

Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However,...

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Remember the Titans

as Carol Boone
Released: 2000-09-29

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced...

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How It Ends

as Paula Sutherland
Released: 2018-07-13

A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic...

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Almost Christmas

as Sonya
Released: 2016-11-11

A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their...

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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

as Lucinda Allen
Released: 2008-02-08

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to...

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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

as Evie Roy
Released: 1995-06-16

An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds...

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Imagine That

as Tricia Danielson
Released: 2009-06-19

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's...

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Brown Sugar

as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
Released: 2002-10-05

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one...

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Black Dynamite

as Mahogany Black
Released: 2009-10-16

This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his...

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200 Cigarettes

as Bridget
Released: 1999-02-26

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships,...

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A Map of the World

as Sherry
Released: 1999-09-13

School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small...

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Stonewall

as Female Draft Officer
Released: 1995-12-26

A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the...

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King's Ransom

as Angela Drake
Released: 2005-04-22

Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own...

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A Snowy Day in Oakland

as Dr. LaTrice Monroe
Released: 2023-03-17

A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco...

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Repentance

as Sophie
Released: 2014-02-28

An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client,...

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35 and Ticking

as Zenobia
Released: 2011-05-20

Victoria, Zenobia, Cleavon, and Phil are all friends approaching the age of 35 and struggling to...

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The End of Violence

as Ade
Released: 1997-09-12

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action...

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Subway Stories

as Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")
Released: 1997-07-24

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City,...

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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Wanda
Released: 1996-11-23

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual...

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Exiled

as Georgeanne Taylor
Released: 1998-11-08

NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt...

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Safe Room

as Lila Jackson
Released: 2022-01-15

After her son accidentally witnesses a break-in in the house across the street and records the...

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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

as Nurse Jenny
Released: 1998-09-11

Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living...

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And Just Like That… The Documentary

as Self
Released: 2022-02-03

In the late ‘90s, “Sex and the City” took television by storm with its honest and hilarious...

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Divas

as Stephanie
Released: 1995-09-19

This pilot for a prospective series is an ensemble drama chronicling the ups and downs of a...

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Mind Prey

as Weather Karkinnon
Released: 1999-03-22

A mentally deranged man takes his former psychiatrist and her two children hostage in revenge...

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Pastor Brown

as Tonya Copeland Brown
Released: 2009-06-26

When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns...

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Downsized

as Ebony
Released: 2017-06-18

Ebony and Michael were forced into a modern "shotgun" wedding after becoming teenage parents,...

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We Are Gathered Here Today

as Nancy Stone
Released: 2022-08-16

The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols...

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Spark

as Nina
Released: 1998-01-16

Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where...

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Loving Jezebel

as Frances
Released: 1999-08-05

A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.

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Dancing in September

as Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
Released: 2001-02-03

A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.

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The Loretta Claiborne Story

as Christine Claiborne
Released: 2000-01-16

A disabled young girl from a disadvantaged home setting develops self esteem and success in life...

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Harlem Aria

as Clarisse
Released: 1999-03-05

An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted...

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Lillie Ivers
First aired: 2000-10-06

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...

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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2009-07-16

Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality...

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Chicago P.D.

as Samantha Miller
First aired: 2014-01-08

A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21...

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Younger

as Beth
First aired: 2015-03-31

Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world,...

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Empire

as Giselle Sims-Barker
First aired: 2015-01-07

A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle...

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Sherri

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2022-09-12

Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears...

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MasterChef

as Self
First aired: 2010-07-27

This hit cooking competition series sees award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and other celebrity...

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Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2019-09-09

Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she...

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Celebrity Family Feud

as Self
First aired: 2015-06-21

Celebrity Family Feud pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to...

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Rosewood

as Kat
First aired: 2015-09-23

Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated...

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Star

as Giselle Simms
First aired: 2016-12-14

Star is a tough-as-nails young woman who came up in the foster care system and decides one day...

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Lip Sync Battle

as Self
First aired: 2015-04-02

Each episode features two A-list celebrities like you've never seen them before - syncing their...

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The Tyra Banks Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-09-12

The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk...

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And Just Like That…

as Lisa Todd Wexley
First aired: 2021-12-09

This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate...

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Revolution

as Secretary Justine Allenford
First aired: 2012-09-17

One day, electricity just stopped working and the world was suddenly thrust back into the dark...

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All of Us

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-09-16

Robert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome,...

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Soul Food

as Teri Joseph
First aired: 2000-06-28

Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June...

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The Romanoffs

as Cheryl Gowans
First aired: 2018-10-11

An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day...

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I'm Dying Up Here

as Gloria
First aired: 2017-06-04

Set in LA’s celebrated, infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s, this series delves into the...

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The Deep End

as Susan Oppenheim
First aired: 2010-01-21

The tragedies and triumphs of five earnest twenty-something first-year associates fighting to...

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106 & Park

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-09-11

106 & Park is an American Hip Hop and R&B music video show set up in a countdown format, that...

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Time After Time

as Vanessa Anders
First aired: 2017-03-05

A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet...

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The Fran Drescher Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-11-26

The Fran Drescher Show, also called The Fran Drescher Tawk Show, is a syndicated talk show...

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