Nicole Ari Parker Bio, Age,Husband, Kids, Net Worth, Parents, Movies, TV Shows

Nicole Ari Parker (Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe) is an American actress and model. Parker made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love in 1995 and later went to appear in Boogie Nights in 1997 directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Nicole Ari Parker Biography

Nicole Ari Parker (Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe) is an American actress and model. Parker made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love in 1995 and later went to appear in Boogie Nights in 1997 directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Parker has starred in a number of movies, include Blue Streak in 1999, Remember the Titans in 2000, Brown Sugar in 2002, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins in 2008, Black Dynamite in 2009 and Almost Christmas in 2016. On television, Parker played the leading role of attorney Teri Joseph in the Showtime drama series Soul Food from 2000 to 2004), for which she received five NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nominations. Additionally, Parker starred in the short-lived UPN romantic comedy Second Time Around (2004-05) and ABC drama Time After Time in 2017. she joined the cast of Fox prime time soap opera Empire in 2017 playing Giselle Barker.

Nicole Ari Parker Age

Nicole Ari Parker was born on October 7, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. As of 2018 she is  48 years old.

Nicole Ari Parker Height

Parker stands at a height of 5 Feet 8 Inch.

Nicole Ari Parker Husband | Nicole Ari Parker And Boris Kodjoe

Nicole Ari Parker Parker married her Soul Food co-star Boris Kodjoe, on May 21, 2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany. Previously Parker was married to actor Joseph Falasca. Their marriage lasted only eight months and later that year they divorced.

Nicole Ari Parker Kids

In March 5, 2005, she gave birth to their first child, a girl. Sophie has spina bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. In October 2006, Parker gave birth to the couple’s second child, a son, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Nicole Ari Parker Family

Nicole Ari Parker is the only child of her divorced parents, Susan Parker a health care professional and Donald Parker a dentist.

Nicole Ari Parker Net Worth

Nicole has a net worth of $5 million. Much of this has been from her huge roles in films and TV shows throughout her 25-year acting career. Nicole’s role as an attorney on the show Soul Food (2000-2004) is among the most significant contributors to her fortune.

Nicole Ari Parker Religion

Parker is a christian, the family attends the Cascade United Methodist Church when in Atlanta.

Nicole Ari Parker Education

After briefly attending the Montessori School, she entered Roland Park Country School where she stayed through high school. Parker won Best Actress in the state of Maryland’s high school competition whe she was 17 years old, and then moved to The Washington Ballet Company before applying to the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 1993, Parker graduated with an acting degree.

Nicole Ari Parker Career

Early in her career Parker appeared in several critically acclaimed independent films including The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, 200 Cigarettes, Boogie Nights, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winner The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. She starred with Boris Kodjoe, her husband, model and actor, in UPN’s situation comedy Second Time Around.

After a string of odd jobs, bit roles and low wage work in the theater circuit, Parker was offered her breakthrough role on Soul Food. In Soul Food, Parker showcased her singing voice in several episodes. She also had a guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing a singer. In the movie Divas alongside Khalil Kain, Parker played the role of Stephanie in the movie Divas alongside Khalil Kain. Parker also had a lead role in the 1998 film Exiled: A Law & Order Movie. She worked alongside Martin Lawrence in two of his films: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins and Blue Streak. She also opened on Broadway in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, in the role of Blanche DuBois.

In the 2013, Parker was lead actress on NBC drama pilot, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives and later had a recurring role on Revolution. Parker starred as a series regular in 2014, in the first season of the TNT crime drama Murder in the First, opposite Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. Parker joined the cast of Fox prime time soap opera Empire in 2017, playing Giselle Barker, in a recurring basic during fourth season. Parker has been promoted to a series regular for the fifth season.

Nicole Ari Parker Movies

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1993

Other Women’s Children

Marcelle

1995

Stonewall

Female Draft Officer

1995

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

Evie Roy

1995

Divas

Stephanie

1996

Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat” Manigault

Wanda

1997

The End of Violence

Ade

1997

Subway Stories

Sharon

Segment: “Honey-Getter”

1997

Boogie Nights

Becky Barnett

1998

Spark

Nina

1998

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

Jenny

1998

Exiled

Georgeanne Taylor

1999

200 Cigarettes

Bridget

1999

Mute Love

Mavis

1999

Mind Prey

Weather Karkinnon

1999

Mirar Mirror

Denise Scott

1999

Loving Jezebel

Frances

1999

Harlem Aria

Clarisse

1999

A Map of the World

Sherry

1999

Blue Streak

Melissa Green

2000

The Loretta Claiborne Story

Christine Claiborne

2000

Dancing in September

Tomasina ‘Tommy’ Crawford

2000

Remember the Titans

Carol Boone

2002

Brown Sugar

Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis

2005

King’s Ransom

Angela Drake

2008

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins

Lucinda Allen

2009

Black Dynamite

Mahogany Black

2009

Imagine That

Trish

2009

Pastor Brown

Tonya Copeland Brown

2011

35 and Ticking

Zenobia

2012

Vipaka

Sophie

2014

Repentance

Sophie Sanchez

2016

Almost Christmas

Sonya Meyers

2018

How It Ends

Paula Sutherland

 Nicole Ari Parker TV Shows

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1999–2000

Cosby

Rebecca

3 episodes

2002

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Lillie Iv

Episode: “Primum Non Nocere”

2003

The System

Linda Evans

Series regular (9 episodes)

2004

All of Us

Traci Garrison

Episode: “Playdate”

2000–2004

Soul Food

Teri Joseph

Series regular (74 episodes)

2004–2005

Second Time Around

Ryan Muse

Series regular (13 episodes)

2008

Never Better

Allison

Pilot

2010

The Deep End

Susan Oppenheim

Series regular (6 episodes)

2011

Big Mike

Grace Peterson

Pilot

2013

Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

Paula

Pilot

2013

Real Husbands of Hollywood

Herself

5 episodes

2013

Revolution

Justine Allenford

8 episodes

2014

Murder in the First

Jacqueline Perez

Series regular (9 episodes)

2015

The Boris & Nicole Show

Herself/Co-host

25 episodes

2015–2016

Rosewood

Kat Crawford[10]

Recurring role

2017

Time After Time

Vanessa Anders

Recurring role

2017-present

Empire

Giselle Barker

2018

The Romanoffs

Cheryl Gowans

2019

Lip Sync Battle

Herself

Episode: “Boris Kodjoe vs. Nicole Ari Parker”

Nicole Ari Parker Accolades

Awards and nominations for acting

Year

Association

Category

Work

Result

1998

Screen Actors Guild

Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture

Boogie Nights

Nominated

2001

Image Awards

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Remember the Titans

Nominated

2001

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

Soul Food

Nominated

2002

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

Soul Food

Nominated

2003

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Brown Sugar

Nominated

2003

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

Soul Food

Nominated

2004

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

Soul Food

Nominated

2005

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

Soul Food

Nominated

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