Nicole Ari Parker
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.
Acting
Movie
Boogie Nights
as Becky Barnett
1997
Movie
Remember the Titans
as Carol Boone
2000
TV
Chicago P.D.
as Samantha Miller
2014
Movie
How It Ends
as Paula Sutherland
2018
Movie
Blue Streak
as Mellisa Green
1999
TV
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Lillie Ivers
2000
TV
Empire
as Giselle Sims-Barker
2015
Movie
Black Dynamite
as Mahogany Black
2009
TV
Revolution
as Justine Allenford
2012
Movie
Imagine That
as Tricia Danielson
2009
TV
And Just Like That…
as Lisa Todd Wexley
2021
Movie
Almost Christmas
as Sonya
2016
Movie
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
as Lucinda Allen
2008
TV
Younger
as Beth
2015
Movie
200 Cigarettes
as Bridget
1999
TV
Rosewood
as Kat
2015
TV
Star
as Giselle Simms
2016
Movie
Brown Sugar
as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
2002
TV
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
Movie
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
as Evie Roy
1995
TV
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
TV
Time After Time
as Vanessa Anders
2017
Movie
The End of Violence
as Ade
1997
TV
The Romanoffs
as Cheryl Gowans
2018