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
His father was from the Nzema people, a subgroup of the Akan people. So he’s Akan Ghanaian.
His father was named Eric Ofuatey Kodjoe :
http://www.nkonkonsa.com/featured/boris-kodjoe-pays-tribute-to-his-late-father/
His paternal grandparents were named Elsie and Joseph Cecil Ofuatey-Kodjoe :
https://yen.com.gh/72106-photo-hollywood-star-boris-kodjoe-shares-picture-ghanaian-grandparents.html
Damn he’s good looking.
you have no idea what a fully black person looks like if you think he looks black.
@Multiethnicchick
He also said he looked like an African American, which he does.I didn’t know he was half white until I came to the site. If I saw him on the street, I wouldn’t have thought twice about him
Why are you telling me this?
He looks like an African-American for sure.