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Parker in 2004, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 7, 1970
Ethnicity: African-American
Nicole Ari Parker is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love , The End of Violence , Boogie Nights , The Adventures of Sebastian Cole , A Map of the World , Blue Streak , Dancing in September , Remember the Titans , Brown Sugar , Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins , Black Dynamite , Imagine That , and Almost Christmas , and on the series Soul Food , Second Time Around , Empire , and Chicago P.D. .
Her parents, Susan and Donald Parker, are both African-American. She is married to actor Boris Kodjoe , who is of biracial background. The couple has two children.
Nicole has said:
I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore… My mother’s from North Carolina and she has green eyes and freckles. So, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of white and Native-American mixed-in there. But I’m only claiming African-American, because that’s really what I know.
I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore… My mother’s from North Carolina and she has green eyes and freckles. So, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of white and Native-American mixed-in there. But I’m only claiming African-American, because that’s really what I know.
A picture of Nicole with her father can be seen here . A picture of Nicole with her mother can be seen here . A picture of Nicole, Boris, and their children can be seen here .