Boris Kodjoe
Kodjoe in 2009, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Date of Birth: 8 March, 1973
Ethnicity:
*father – Akan Ghanaian
*mother – German, Ashkenazi Jewish
Boris Kodjoe is an actor and model. He is known for his role in the Showtime drama Soul Food, and the films Brown Sugar, Madea’s Family Reunion, Baggage Claim, and several Resident Evil sequels.
He was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Ghanaian father, Eric Ofuatey Kodjoe, and a German mother, Ursula. He was raised in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and resides in the United States. Boris is married to American actress Nicole Ari Parker, with whom he has two children. A picture of Boris, Nicole, and their children can be seen here.
His father was from the Nzema group of the Akan people. Boris’s maternal grandmother’s mother was Jewish, and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The rest of Boris’s mother’s ancestry appears to be non-Jewish German. Boris is fluent in German, French, English, and Spanish.
He was named after poet and writer Boris Pasternak.
Boris’s paternal grandfather was named Joseph Cecil Ofuatey-Kodjoe.
Boris’s paternal grandmother was named Elsie.
Sources: http://mrbrownmovies.com
http://www.nkonkonsa.com
https://yen.com.gh
Nigga he looks black because his daddy is fully African and his mom is some whiteass German woman. African-Americans are mixed from the days of slavery and some bred with Native Americans. You can always tell when someone is an American mulatto, they look HELLA different than an African mulatto.
It’s the eyes and the jaws.
Lawd this man if fine as hell, too bad his wife is ugly.
Nicole Ari Parker is not ugly.
he looks “blacker” because is father is ghanaian, not black american. most black americans have white and native american admixture. so when a black american and a white person have a kid, the kids looks dominican or puerto rican, or they come out looking ambiguous. ghanaians are REAL black people.
Most black americans have white ancestry. The having native american ancestry is a perpetuated lie.
not really..this is a ghanaian
http://ethnicelebs.com/mario-balotelli
He reminds me this guy
http://ethnicelebs.com/shemar-moore
Interesting mix.