Boris Kodjoe: Summary

Recent Role:: Himself on The Wendy Williams Show

Gender:: Male

Birthday:: 3-8-1973

Birthplace:: Vienna, Austria

Birth Name:: Boris Frederic Cecil Tey-Natey Ofuatey Kodjoe

AKA:: Boris O. Kodjoe

Boris Frederic Cecil Tey-Natey Ofuatey Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria to a German mother, and a Ghanaian father. He has one sister, Nadja, and a brother, Patrick. As a teenager, Boris was extremely focused on building a tennis career. He was accepted to Virgina Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia through a tennis scholarship. However, a back injury prevented him from pursuing this dream. After modeling came into the picture, Boris moved to America where he learned English and worked with a voice coach to lose his accent. He modeled for many high-profile clothing lines such as Gap and Ralph Lauren.

Near the end of his modeling days, Boris discovered a love for acting, and made his movie debut in the hit film "Love and Basketball", starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps. He appeared in such shows as "The Steve Harvey Show", "Boston Public", and "Eve". Boris received one of his biggest rolls when he was cast as Damon Carter on the hit series "Soul Food" based on the film released in 1997 about 3 Black sisters (Vanessa Williams, Nia Long and Vivica A. Fox), their families, and the Sunday dinners that keep them all together. It was on the set of "Soul Food" that Boris met his fiance Nicole Ari Parker. (Parker plays Teri on "Soul Food", an uptight lawyer, Kodjoe played Damon, a delivery man with whom Teri fell in love, but was embarrassed to be seen with due to their differences in status.)

Boris and Nicole co-starred together in the film "Brown Sugar" (starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan) and now star together as a divorced and re-married couple on the UPN show "Second Time Around"(2004) The two welcomed the birth of their first child in March 2005. They got married on May 21, 2005. They now have a second child, a son named Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe born in October of 2006. Boris Frederic Cecil Tey-Natey Ofuatey Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria to a German mother, and a Ghanaian father. He has one sister, Nadja, and a brother, Patrick. As a teenager, Boris was extremely focused on building a tennis career. He was accepted to Virgina Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia through a tennis scholarship. However, a back injury prevented him from...