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Nicole Ari Parker

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.

A Snowy Day in Oakland

2023

as Dr. LaTrice Monroe

We Are Gathered Here Today

2022

as Nancy Stone

And Just Like That… The Documentary

2022

as Self

Safe Room

2022

as Lila Jackson

And Just Like That…

2021

as Lisa Todd Wexley

The Romanoffs

2018

as Cheryl Gowans

How It Ends

2018

as Paula Sutherland

Downsized

2017

as Ebony

I'm Dying Up Here

2017

as Gloria

Time After Time

2017

as Vanessa Anders

Star

2016

as Giselle Simms

Almost Christmas

2016

as Sonya

Rosewood

2015

as Kat

Celebrity Family Feud

2015

as Self

Lip Sync Battle

2015

as Self

Younger

2015

as Beth

Empire

2015

as Giselle Sims-Barker

Repentance

2014

as Sophie

Chicago P.D.

2014

as Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller

Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

2013

as Paula Cooke

Revolution

2012

as Secretary Justine Allenford

35 and Ticking

2011

as Zenobia

MasterChef

2010

as Self

The Deep End

2010

as Susan Oppenheim

Black Dynamite

2009

as Mahogany Black

Pastor Brown

2009

as Tonya Copeland Brown

Imagine That

2009

as Tricia Danielson

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

2008

as Lucinda Allen

King's Ransom

2005

as Angela Drake

Second Time Around

2004

as Ryan Muse

All of Us

2003

Brown Sugar

2002

as Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis

Dancing in September

2001

as Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

as Lillie Ivers

Remember the Titans

2000

as Carol Boone

106 & Park

2000

Soul Food

2000

as Teri Joseph

The Loretta Claiborne Story

2000

as Christine Claiborne

Blue Streak

1999

as Mellisa Green

A Map of the World

1999

as Sherry

Loving Jezebel

1999

as Frances

Mind Prey

1999

as Weather Karkinnon

Harlem Aria

1999

as Clarisse

200 Cigarettes

1999

as Bridget

Exiled

1998

as Georgeanne Taylor

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

1998

as Nurse Jenny

Spark

1998

as Nina

Boogie Nights

1997

as Becky Barnett

Subway Stories

1997

as Sharon (segment "Honey-Getter")

The End of Violence

1997

as Ade

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996

as Wanda

Stonewall

1995

as Female Draft Officer

Divas

1995

as Stephanie

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

1995

as Evie Roy