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Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe[1] (born 8 March 1973), better known as Boris

Kodjoe, is an Austrian-born American actor and former fashion model. He is perhaps best known for

his role as courier-turned-sports agent Damon Carteron the Showtimetelevision drama series Soul

Foodand for his role as David Taylor in the filmThe Gospel. Additionally, he starred as Steven Bloom

in the cancelled 2010NBCaction/drama series Undercovers, and as Luther in the film Resident Evil:

Afterlife.

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1 Career

2 Personal life

3 Filmography

o 3.1 Guest appearances on TV shows

o 3.2 Music videos

4 References

5 External links

Career

Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennisscholarship, and graduated with

abachelor's degree in marketing in 1996.[2]

A four-yearletterman on the Rams' men's tennis team, he

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.[3] His brother Patrick played

for VCU's basketball team. A back injury ended Boris' tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as

a model and soon after entered acting.[4]

Named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People magazine in 2002, Kodjoe is

perhaps best known as one of the seven regular cast members from the Showtimedrama Soul Food,

which aired from 2000 to 2004. He appeared in the 2002 film Brown Sugarand starred in the short-

lived sitcom Second Time Aroundwith his Soul Foodco-starNicole Ari Parker, whom he eventually

married. He played the role of David Taylor, the wayward son of Pastor Fred Taylor in the October

2005 filmThe Gospel. He performed in a play called Whatever She Wants starring Vivica A. Foxand

made an appearance on the fifth season ofNip/Tuck. His most recent role was in the 2009 science

fiction film Surrogates. On December 16, 2009, it was announced that Kodjoe had been cast as the

male lead, Steven Bloom, in the new J. J. Abrams television seriesUndercovers; the show premiered

in September and was subsequently cancelled in November 2010 on NBC. Also that year, he

appeared as Luther in the film Resident Evil: Afterlife.

Personal life
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Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a Germanpsychologist, and Eric Kodjoe,

aGhanaian physician.[1]Hisnamesake isRussian poet and writerBoris Pasternak.

[5]Kodjoe's matrilineal great-grandmother was Jewishand died in theHolocaust; his maternal

grandmother survived the war in hiding.[6][7] Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old[8]and

he grew up in the vicinity ofFreiburg im Breisgau. He is fluent in French, English, and German, and

speaks some Spanish. He has a brother named Patrick and a sister named Nadja. His height is 6' 4"

(1.93 m).

Kodjoe married his Soul Food: The Series co-starNicole Ari Parkeron 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.[9] Parker gave birth to the

couple's second child, a boy, Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, on October 31, 2006. Kodjoe and his wife are

members of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.[10] The family resides in Atlanta,

after moving from Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Kodjoe in December 2010

Chosen Ones (19992006)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Brown Sugar(2002)

Second Time AroundTV series (2004)

Doing Hard Time (2004)

The Gospel (2005)

America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4 (2005)

What Ever She Wants (2006)
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Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

All About Us (2007)

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder(2008)

Surrogates (2009)

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Undercovers (2010)

The Confidant (2010)

clones (2010)

Take The Stand(2011)

Guest appearances on TV shows

Nip/Tuck(2007)

Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2009)

Eve

All of Us

Half & Half

Boston Public

Crossing Jordan
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