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Nicole Ari Parker is a Actor American born on 7 october 1970 at Baltimore (USA)
Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe (born October 7, 1970), also known as Nikki Kodjoe, is an American actress. Parker is known for her role as Becky Barnett in the 1997 film Boogie Nights and as the attorney Teri Joseph on the Showtime series Soul Food, which ran from 2000 to 2004. Additionally, Nicole co-starred on the short-lived UPN romantic comedy Second Time Around that lasted for one season.
Parker is an active member of the Democratic Party.
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Parker eloped with actor Joseph Falasca in March 2001. Their marriage lasted only eight months; they divorced later that year. She married her Soul Food co-star Boris Kodjoe on May 21, 2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany. She gave birth to their first child, a girl, Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe, on March 5, 2005. Sophie has spina bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. Parker gave birth to the couple's second child, Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, a boy, on October 31, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. The family attends the Cascade United Methodist Church when in Atlanta. They currently reside in Los Angeles, CA.Parker is an active member of the Democratic Party.
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How It Ends (2018)
, 1h53Directed by David M. Rosenthal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Theo James, Forest Whitaker, Katerina Graham, Kerry Bishé, Mark O'Brien, Nicole Ari Parker
Roles Paula Sutherland
Rating51%
À la suite d'un dîner qui s’est plutôt mal passé avec les parents de sa fiancée, alors enceinte, un jeune avocat discute avec cette dernière au téléphone portable lorsque la liaison se brouille, il lui entend une voix anormale : paniquée, elle dit que quelque chose d’étrange se déclenche autour d’elle. La liaison téléphonique est suspendue. En retard pour son vol retour pour Seattle, il va à l’aéroport international O'Hare de Chicago où tous les vols sont annulés et un journal télévisé précise justement qu’un séisme vient de se produire sur la côte ouest des États-Unis, avant d’être brutalement interrompu en même temps que les lignes électriques et téléphoniques.
Repentance (2014)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Anthony Mackie, Forest Whitaker, Mike Epps, Nicole Ari Parker, Sanaa Lathan, Peter Weller
Roles Sophie
Rating49%
Years after a drunken car crash that almost took his life, Tommy Carter (Mackie) has reinvented himself as a therapist/spiritual advisor who advocates a synthesis of world religions and positivity. He's parlayed this vocation into a successful book release that one day draws the attention of Angel Sanchez (Whitaker), a profoundly troubled man fixated on the "untimely" death of his mother. When Carter takes on Sanchez as a personal client in an effort to raise funds for his indebted brother Ben (Epps), things quickly take a turn for the worse. Angel needs much more than a simple life coach.
Pastor Brown (2011)
Directed by Rockmond Dunbar
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Beach, Tasha Smith, Keith David
Roles Tonya Copeland Brown
Rating62%
When her father unexpectedly becomes terminally ill, Jessica ("Jesse"), an exotic dancer, returns home for the first time in over a decade. As her father's dying wish, he asks her to take over as head of Mount Olive Baptist Church. The news turns her and her family's life upside down. Jesse accepts her father's commission, thereby pitting herself against her sister and most of the leadership at Mount Olive who know her secret past.
35 and Ticking (2011)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Tamala Jones, Nicole Ari Parker, Darius McCrary, Keith Robinson, Dondré T. Whitfield, Kevin Hart
Roles Zenobia
Rating55%
35 & Ticking centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends over the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria (Tamala Jones) is married to a man who doesn't want children. Clevon (Kevin Hart), meanwhile, is too geeky to get a woman, and Phil (Keith Robinson) is already married with children, but his wife is not very interested in being a mother. All four of them try to rectify their romantic lives and futures while their biological clocks tick away.
35 and Ticking (2011)
Directed by Russ Parr
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Tamala Jones, Nicole Ari Parker, Keith Robinson, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Clifton Powell, Kevin Hart
Roles Zenobia
Rating55%
35 & Ticking centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends over the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria (Tamala Jones) is married to a man who doesn't want children. Clevon (Kevin Hart), meanwhile, is too geeky to get a woman, and Phil (Keith Robinson) is already married with children, but his wife is not very interested in being a mother. All four of them try to rectify their romantic lives and futures while their biological clocks tick away.
Black Dynamite (2010)
, 1h24Directed by Scott Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Biography, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Martial arts films, Political films, Kung fu films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Chapman, Obba Babatundé, Tommy Davidson
Roles Mahogany Black
Rating73%
In the 1970s, Black Dynamite, a Vietnam War veteran and former CIA officer, vows to clean up the streets of drug dealers and gangsters after his younger brother Jimmy is killed by a shady organization. O'Leary, Black Dynamite's former army and CIA partner, reinstates him into the agency because they do not want him seeking vengeance by himself. While trying to get to the bottom of Jimmy's murder, he finds out that his brother was actually working undercover for the CIA. Black Dynamite also discovers the shady organization is filling the black orphanages with heroin. He declares war on local drug dealers and successfully cleans up the streets, earning him the affection of Gloria, a black power activist who works at the local orphanage.
Imagine That (2009)
, 1h47Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Marin Hinkle, Nicole Ari Parker, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox
Roles Tricia Danielson
Rating56%
Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) is a very successful financial advisor, who had been working at the same securities firm for eight years as their top account manager, that is until Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church) was hired as his rival. Whitefeather seems to have the whole company under some spell as he spiels his nonsensical idioms filled with Native American mumbo jumbo. These top executives seem more content with chanting Indian style noises rather than listen to how they can make money through sound investments. When Evan finally discovers that his daughter, Olivia (Yara Shahidi), is somehow able to tell the future within the financial world by using her 'goo-gaa' comfort blanket and her imaginary friends (Queen Qwali and Princesses Kupida, Sopida and Mopida), he discovers he has an invaluable upper hand now at the office.
Funny People (2009)
, 2h26Directed by Judd Apatow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill
Roles Dawn
Rating62%
George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a middle-aged former stand-up comedian turned movie star. Despite his millions he is sad and lonely and most of his recent film work is low-brow and dumb. He is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and offered an experimental treatment that has only an eight-percent chance of therapeutic response. Believing he is about to die, he returns to his roots to do stand-up comedy.
Meet the Spartans (2008)
, 1h24Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Aaron Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Sean Maguire, Kevin Sorbo, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Diedrich Bader, Travis Van Winkle
Roles Paris Hilton et Britney Spears
Rating28%
The film opens with a Spartan elder inspecting an ugly, talking baby (an ogre from Shrek the Third); it is abandoned to die for its deformity. A second baby, who is Vietnamese, is adopted by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Baby Leonidas is then inspected, having a six-pack, biceps and beard from birth. He is accepted as a Spartan and prepared for kinghood through his childhood training, from fighting his grandmother to enduring torture (a la Casino Royale). Leonidas (Sean Maguire) is then cast out into the wild, and survives the harsh winter and a gangsta penguin (Happy Feet). Returning a king for his inauguration wearing a penguin skin hat, Leonidas sees Margo (Carmen Electra) erotically dancing and asks her to marry him, to which she responds by giving him the combination to her chastity belt.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
, 1h54Directed by Malcolm D. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps
Roles Lucinda Allen
Rating55%
Dr. R.J. (Roscoe) Stevens (Martin Lawrence) is a talk-show sensation who has discarded his simple Southern awkward-boy past and the awkward boy he used to be to dispense motivational advice to millions of adoring fans. With reality TV series Survivor winner Bianca Kittles (Joy Bryant) on his arm and enough cash in his pocket to easily afford expensive gifts for his parents, he feels like there's nothing he hasn't achieved.
Disaster Movie (2008)
, 1h25Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Aaron Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films about religion, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Matt Lanter, Vanessa Lachey, Nicole Ari Parker, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Frances Parker, Kim Kardashian West
Roles Enchanted Princess / Amy Winehouse Look-A-Like / Jessica Simpson Look-A-Like
Rating19%
In the year 10,001 B.C., a caveman runs away from a predator through a plain and immediately gets into a fight with Wolf (Ike Barinholtz). After defeating him, the caveman then encounters the predator: a saber-toothed, gasoline-drinking Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker), who after checking her Facebook account, informs him that the world will end on August 29, 2008 (the film's release date) revealing that their fate lies in a crystal skull. The film flash-forwards to the present, treating the first scene as a dream sequence of Will (Matt Lanter). He then finds out that his girlfriend Amy (Vanessa Minnillo) is having an affair with Flavor Flav (Abe Spigner), and she breaks up with Will because he is not admitting his true feelings for her.
King's Ransom (2005)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Donald Faison, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, Charlie Murphy
Roles Angela Drake
Rating44%
Malcolm King (Anderson) is a wealthy, selfish, obnoxious businessman who is about to divorce his wife Renee (Smith). She plans to ruin him financially during the court proceedings, and King is willing to do anything to protect his fortune.
Brown Sugar (2002)
, 1h49Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Taye Diggs, Wendell Pierce, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Marc John Jefferies, Nicole Ari Parker
Roles Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
Rating65%
Brown sugar is the film that follows the evolving relationship between Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), an attractive young woman who has just been appointed the editor-in-chief of the hip-hop magazine XXL, and Dre (Taye Diggs), an A&R for Millennium Records. They have been bound together since their early childhood. The news that Dre is preparing to be married to Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), a successful entertainment attorney, sends Sidney into a subconscious tizzy.
Dancing in September (2001)
, 1h46Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Nicole Ari Parker, Isaiah Washington, Tichina Arnold, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Jay Underwood, Marcia Cross
Roles Tomasina 'Tommy' Crawford
Rating61%
Dancing In September tells the story of two hopeful and ambitious African-Americans attempting to make their mark in the television industry. One is a scriptwriter named Tomasina “Tommy” Crawford (Parker), who has grown weary of contributing to stereotypical characters and programming for African-Americans and dreams of creating a balanced, positive program for herself and the African-American public. The other is a newly appointed television producer named George Washington (Washington), who hopes to ascend to the highest levels of the television industry and carve out a special place for himself to help redefine African-American programming. When Tommy submits a script for a positive family sitcom titled "Just Us," she is indirectly brought into George's path. The rest of the film follows the struggles that both she and George face in their specific environments, mainly painting a positive portrayal of African-Americans in the media, in addition to staying true to their own culture and identity as African-Americans.
Remember the Titans (2000)
, 1h53Directed by Boaz Yakin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism, Sports films, American football films, Children's films
Actors Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Donald Faison, Ryan Hurst, Nicole Ari Parker
Roles Carol Boone
Rating77%
In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, a black head coach Herman Boone (Washington) is hired to lead the school's football team. Boone takes over from the current coach Bill Yoast (Patton), nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. As a show of respect, Boone offers an assistant coordinator coaching position to Yoast. Yoast at first refuses Boone's offer, but reconsiders after the white players pledge to boycott the team if he does not participate. Dismayed at the prospect of the students losing their chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and takes up the position of defensive coordinator.