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.
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He’s an idiot. He said he’s black because that’s how he’s perceived and feels. First of all, you can’t feel black. That’s the same racist garbage Rachel Dolezeal said. Second, only people who have no idea what a full on black person looks like would think this man looks black. He clearly looks mixed. If he wants to identify as half a person, fine. But if that’s the case, he should just never call himself mixed because there are real mixed people who have no issue claiming both sides. this guy is just another racist one-drop rule pusher.
You seem to be intolerant of other peoples opinion. Not everyone in the world is going to look at things the way you do. He’s not being racist. You don’t see him running around yelling (That’s right I’m a Black man and that makes me better), that what a racist does. However he’s not doing that. He said he’s been perceived as a black man, which I’m sure most of the people he’s come in contact with have seen him as just that.
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Well you’re right about that, but then there are a lot of ones that don’t have such a great experience as you
That is something I did not need to know
Those sexy, hooded bedroom eyes are definitely the Jewish part.
He looks like an evenly balanced 50/50 mulatto leaning a bit more towards his Ghanaian side, same with Obama.
People need to take into consideration that the average American mulatto is actually more European on average than SSA (Sub-Saharan African) due to the presence of European admixture in African-Americans.
American mulattoes are usually like 35-40% black instead of actually being evenly balanced 50/50.
wow someone who actually factors this in. Most people don’t consider that black americans already being mixed means their off spring with a white person turns out mostly white.
Well you guy also don’t factor in the possibility that the European parent might not be pure. That may be the reason why the children might come out more black looking like with a lot of mulattoes. Also that traits play a major roll in how a child will look. So even if a american mulatto is more European, they can still come out looking majority black
By black people you mean African-Americans who are mixed themselves.
I can see both the Jewish and the German. Ghanaians are very dark. My cousin is half Ghanaian, half white and she could pass for an African-American cause she looks 3/4 black.
Interestingly she had kids with a mixed Jamaican man and one of them turned out to be lighter than both of them.
That can happen, as you already know. My cousin was dark skin, and her boyfriend was brown, Yet their children came out high yella(and stayed that way). Although that’s nothing uncommon with my family
how does one look 3/4 black?
@Multie
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Well you just stated that Robert Ri’chard looked like he was in the 25% range, how does one look that?