Nationality: American

Place of birthBaltimore, Maryland, USA

Ethnicity: A few web sites say that she was born to an African American father and a Caucasian mother.

She is an american actress and has featured in countless films, television series and stage performances.

  

The only child of Donald, a dentist and Susan, a health care entrepreneur.

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She graduated from New YorkUniversity’s TischSchool of the Arts

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Nicole Ari Parker - 7th Annual Artivist Film Festival Awards - Arrivals  Nicole Ari Parker - Premiere Of Universal's "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" - Arrivals

“I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore, Kam. 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.”

Source:

http://www.dallasblack.com/entertainment/nicole_ari_secondtime

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Personal Quotes

I don’t believe in ‘insecurities.’ They are a waste of time. God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Nicole Ari Parker - Women Empowering Women Symposium - Arrivals Nicole Ari Parker Women Empowering Women Symposium Event

Parker is married to fellow model turned actor, Boris Kodjoe.

His mother, Ursula Kodjoe, is a psychologist from Germany and his father, Eric Kodjoe, is a physician from Ghana, West Africa.

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He is fluent in English, French and German. He can also speak some Spanish.

They Married in Gundelfingen, Germany.

  

http://youtu.be/9kT0DJHEnzc

Boris Kodjoe was named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World 2002.”

On her wedding license document in German her name is written Nicole Ari Ofuatye-Kodjoe born Parker.

http://youtu.be/XZ18JIsEHIs

The couple resides in Atlanta, Georgia with their two children.

Nicole Ari Parker - 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 

He is 6’4 ft Tall.

Kodjoe was born in ViennaAustria. His namesake is Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. Kodjoe’s matrilineal great-grandmother was Jewish and died in the Holocaust; his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding.

The couple resides in Atlanta, Georgia with their two children.

Actress Nicole Ari Parker pictured onstage during curtain call at the opening night of “A Streetcar Named Desire”>> at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 22, 2012 in New York City.

Nicole Ari Parker - "A Streetcar Named Desire" Opening Night - Arrivals & Curtain Call

Nicole studied at Stonestreet Studios, the independent film studio in NYC, the advanced conservatory for screen acting, directing, and production for NYU Tisch School of the Arts Drama, where she received her degree.

Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker in St. Moritz, Switzerland.