Boris Kodjoe Bio | Wiki
Boris Kodjoe is an Austrian-born American actor, producer, and former model. He is best known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food, and Dr. Will Campbell on CBS’s Code Black.
Boris had a recurring character on FOX’s The Last Man on Earth and co-stars on BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood and the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, Station 19 as Robert Sullivan. He is fluent in German, English, Russian, French, and Italian, and he also speaks a little Spanish.
Boris Kodjoe Age
Boris was born on March 8, 1973, in Vienna, Austria. She is 49 years old.
Boris Kodjoe Height
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.92 m).
Boris Kodjoe Parents
He was born in Vienna, Austria to his parents Ursula and Eric Kodjoe. Boris’s mother is a German psychologist of partially Jewish descent, while his father is a Ghanaian physician who is of the Ga-Adangbe people. His namesake is the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak.
Boris’ matrilineal great-grandmother was Jewish and was murdered in the Holocaust; his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding. His parents divorced when he was six years old and grew up in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau.
Boris Kodjoe Brother | Sister
He has a brother named Patrick and two sisters named Nadja and Lara. Patrick played for VCU’s basketball team.
Boris Kodjoe Wife
Boris is married to his Soul Food: The Series co-star Nicole Ari Parker. The couple celebrates their wedding on May 21, 2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany. They welcomed their daughter Sophie Tei Naaki Lee in March 2005. In October 2006 they welcomed a son Nicolas Neruda.
Boris and his wife are members of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The family resides in Los Angeles, California. Parker and Boris competed against one another on a February 2019 episode of Lip Sync Battle.
Boris Kodjoe Son | Daughter
Boris and his wife Parker welcomed their first child, a girl Sophie, in March 2005. She has spina bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. Spina bifida is a birth defect in which there s incomplete closing of the spine and the membranes around the spinal cord during early development in pregnancy. Their son Nicolas was born in 2006.
Boris Kodjoe Education
He attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1996. A four-year letterman on the Rams’ men’s tennis team, Boris is currently ninth in school history with 75 career singles wins.
Tied for third in doubles victories with 66, he was paired with Jonas Elmblad on 37 of them, also third all-time. A back injury ended Boris’ tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as a model and, soon after, entered acting. In 1995, he was featured in TLC’s music video for “Red Light Special.”
Boris Kodjoe Movies And Tv Shows
2016–18 Code Black
2017 Tales
2018–present Station 19
2018 House of Cards
2019 Lip Sync Battle
2019 Grey’s Anatomy
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution
2013 Baggage Claim
2013 Nurse 3D
2014 Addicted
2017 Ferdinan
Nicole & O.J.
Boris Kodjoe Station 19
In July 2018, Boris landed a recurring role in the second season of the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off series Station 19. He was promoted to a series regular after his appearance in the season premiere as the new fire captain, Robert Sullivan in October. In “Eulogy”, he is promoted to Battalion Chief.
Station 19 is an American action-drama television series created by Stacy McKee for ABC that premiered on March 22, 2018. It is the second spin-off of Grey’s Anatomy (after Private Practice). Set in Seattle, the series focuses on the lives of the men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19.
Boris Kodjoe Tyler Perry Movie | Madea
In 2006, he played Frankie Henderson in the film Madea’s Family Reunion, a 2006 American comedy-drama film and an adaptation of the stage production of the same name written by Tyler Perry. The film is a sequel to Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
It was written, directed by, and starring Perry with the rest of the cast consisting of Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris, Henry Simmons, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Maya Angelou, Rochelle Aytes, Jenifer Lewis, Tangi Miller, Keke Palmer, and Cicely Tyson.
Boris Kodjoe Nationality | Ethnicity
Boris was born to a white mother from Germany and a Black father from Ghana. His mother is German of partial Jewish descent and his father is of the Ga-Adangbe people. He holds a mixed ethnicity and holds Austrian and German nationality.
Boris Kodjoe Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Boris’ estimated net worth is $5 million.
How Tall Is Boris Kodjoe
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.92 m).
Who Is Boris Kodjoe Married To
Boris is married to his Soul Food: The Series co-star Nicole Ari Parker. The couple celebrates their wedding on May 21, 2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany. They have two children Sophie and Nicolas.