Nicole Ari Parker
Biography
Nicole Ari Parker is an American actress who began her screen career in the mid-1990s with a leading role in the independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), then appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). Her film work includes Blue Streak (1999), Remember the Titans (2000), for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination, Brown Sugar (2002), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) and Almost Christmas (2016). On television she starred as attorney Teri Joseph in the Showtime drama Soul Food from 2000 to 2004, earning five NAACP Image Award nominations, and later appeared in Second Time Around, Time After Time and Empire as Giselle Barker. She has played Lisa Todd Wexley in And Just Like That... since 2021, and made her Broadway debut in 2012 as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
56years old
Turns 57 on October 7in 357 days
- Born Baltimore
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 28 years1995 to 2023
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Early training
At 17, Parker was named Best Actress in Maryland's high school theater competition. She later joined The Washington Ballet Company, then earned an acting degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.
First role
Parker's first screen role was a secondary part in Other Women's Children, a made-for-television movie from 1993 that starred Melanie Mayron.
Nicole Ari Parker movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Forest Whitaker appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Ronny Cox's page
Also two films together7 more actors
- Gregory Alan WilliamsAlmost Christmas (2016) and Remember the Titans (2000)
- Martin LawrenceWelcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008) and Blue Streak (1999)
- Dave Chappelle200 Cigarettes (1999) and Blue Streak (1999)
- Sanaa LathanRepentance (2013) and Brown Sugar (2002)
- Margaret AveryWe Are Gathered Here Today (2022) and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
- Kimberly EliseA Snowy Day in Oakland (2023) and Almost Christmas (2016)
- Mo'NiqueAlmost Christmas (2016) and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Nicole Ari Parker's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$443 million
10 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 10 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$137M30.9% of the total
- 2$118M26.6% of the total
- 3$44M9.9% of the total
- 4$43M9.7% of the total
- 5$43M9.6% of the total
- 6$27M6.2% of the total
- 7$23M5.2% of the total
- 8$6.9M1.5% of the total
$1.6 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total