Parker’s Biography
Nicole Parker is amodel and actress well-known for her parts in movies like Boogie Nights and The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love. She has also made appearances in television shows such as Time After Time, Second Time Around, and Soul Food. Parker’s performance in the Showtime drama series Soul Food earned her five nominations for NAACP Image Awards. She also participated in the 2017 season of Fox’s soap opera Empire. In 2021, she started to star in the comedy-drama series And Just Like That on HBO Max.
How old is Parker?
Born Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe, the American Model is 54 years old as of 7 October 2024. She was born on 7 October 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Parker’s Height
Nicole stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73m).
Is Parker still married? Children
In March 2001, she and actor Joseph Falasca eloped. After a few months of marriage, they got divorced later that year. On May 21, 2005, Parker wed her Soul Food co-star Boris Kodjoe in Gundelfingen, Germany. Sophie was diagnosed with spina bifida at birth. In October 2006, Parker gave birth in Atlanta, Georgia, to their son, Nicolas. When in Atlanta, the family goes to the Cascade United Methodist Church. On March 5, 2005, she gave birth to Sophie, their first child.
Where did Parker go to college
Parker attended a Montessori school for a short time before enrolling at Roland Park Country School, where she completed her high school education. She won Best Actress in the Maryland high school theatrical competition when she was just 17 years old. Before graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in acting in 1993, she joined The Washington Ballet Company.
What does Parker do for a living now?
With a supporting part in the 1993 television film Other Women’s Children, Parker launched her career in entertainment. She then starred in a number of movies, such as Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, Divas, Boogie Nights, and The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love. Parker has starred in the drama series Soul Food on Showtime and the biographical movie Remember the Titans.
After starring in Brown Sugar in 2002, she went on to star in King’s Ransom, Imagine That, Black Dynamite, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, and Pastor Brown. Between 2004 and 2005, Parker starred in the brief UPN series Second Time Around.
She made a comeback to television in 2010 when she starred in The Deep End, an ABC courtroom drama. She debuted on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire in 2012. She had a recurring role on Revolution after starring as the protagonist in the NBC drama pilot Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives in 2013. She appeared in the first season of the TNT crime thriller Murder in the First in 2014 as a series regular. She starred in the comedy-drama Almost Christmas in 2016 and Time After Time, another brief drama series, in 2017.
Parker made a recurrent appearance as Giselle Barker on Fox’s prime-time soap drama Empire in 2017. She stayed on the show until the 2020 series finale after being upgraded to a series regular for the fifth season. Parker has a recurring role on the NBC series Chicago P.D. for the 2020–21 season. In late 2021, she made her acting debut in the comedy-drama series And Just Like That… on HBO Max
Parker Movies
- 2023 – A Snowy Day in Oakland
- 2022 – We Are Gathered Here Today
- 2022 – Safe Room
- 2018 – How It Ends
- 2017 – Downsized
- 2016 – Almost Christmas
- 2013 – Repentance
- 2011 – 35 and Ticking
- 2009 – Black Dynamite
- 2009 – Imagine That
- 2009 – Pastor Brown
- 2008 – Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
- 2005 – King’s Ransom
- 2002 – Brown Sugar
- 2000 – Dancing in September
TV Shows
- 2026 – Lanterns †
- 2022 – The Best Man: The Final Chapters
- 2021–present – And Just Like That…
- 2020–2021 – Chicago P.D.
- 2019 – Lip Sync Battle
- 2019 – Younger
- 2018 – I’m Dying Up Here
- 2018 – The Romanoffs
- 2017–2020 – Empire
- 2017 – Time After Time
- 2015–2016 – Rosewood
- 2015 – The Boris & Nicole Show
- 2014 – Murder in the First
- 2013–2015 – Real Husbands of Hollywood