Nicole Ari Parker
Parker in 2004, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 7, 1970
Ethnicity: African-American
Nicole Ari Parker is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The End of Violence, Boogie Nights, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, A Map of the World, Blue Streak, Dancing in September, Remember the Titans, Brown Sugar, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, Black Dynamite, Imagine That, and Almost Christmas, and on the series Soul Food, Second Time Around, Empire, and Chicago P.D..
Her parents, Susan and Donald Parker, are both African-American. She is married to actor Boris Kodjoe, who is of biracial background. The couple has two children.
Nicole has said:
I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore… My mother’s from North Carolina and she has green eyes and freckles. So, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of white and Native-American mixed-in there. But I’m only claiming African-American, because that’s really what I know.
A picture of Nicole with her father can be seen here. A picture of Nicole with her mother can be seen here. A picture of Nicole, Boris, and their children can be seen here.
Black West African Nigerians
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She looks biracial, maybe even less than half black. How is she just black? She looks even whiter than Halle Berry who is biracial. I googled pictures of her mother and she looks very mixed and could be mistaken for white. I don’t understand why some white passing black people label themselves as black. If she were to go to Africa they would probably think she’s Italian or Greek.
@noneofyourbussiness, you cannot base your judgement in skin tone complexion as some blacks get very very light skinned. My BLACK uncle is actually pink skinned and both his parents are mostly black. Skin tone is the least detrminant of racial admixture. You cannot base your analysis on Halle Berry because is one of the darkest biracial woman I have ever seen. Halle Berry plays so many African American solely roles becaus eshe looks black.
@midori29 I have seen mixed women darker than Halle Berry who had one white parent and one black, and light skinned people with two dark parents, color is not a good determination of race but people always try to make it.
@noneofyourbussines, she just came out that way but she is BLACK, just accept it. And No in black Africa she would not be Italian or Greek. She wears hair weaves and straightens her hair, yes it is kinky and naturally black textured. Black people know there own people no matter how light skinned they are. She would be accepted.
This woman below is a light skinned Nigerian West African
http://www.skincaretalk.com/t/25966/nigerian-celebrities-and-their-flawless-skin/220
and her mom looks white af too
@WTF the issue with many biracials is that they may look black but they often do not know black people. Many times the black parent is extremly dark or just African black so they do not know the history of intermixing during slavery in America and the British carribean. African black slaves were mixed 200/300 years ago , so they and thier ancetors can take on any skin tone, hair texture, eye color , etc. and stil lbe BLACK. Black Americans do not mix in large number, there are very few interracial marriages, so YES she is black.
she looks almost white in this picture. i don’t consider her black. she looks white af
She is definitely BLACK and was born around and is from where I live. It depends on where in America you live , in the North East of America there are some super light skinned black people. If you do not live around many of these types of blacks you woud not know. I have a ton of friends who had her look growing up and they were defintely blacks. People only look at skin tone.
she looks like a white tranny (no offence) in this pic.
Yeah she’s ” white” until she’s arrested then she is “black”. Of course she has more than African recent ancestry. She probably don’t know her ancestry, regardless she is socially “black” in the U.S. but in a place like Kenya or middle east she could be “white”.
Lol it’s such a shame that white people think just because you are light skin, good hair, and light eyes you are mixed. I know so many biracial people who is light skin but with coarse hair, I know a dark skin man with coarse hair who mother is white and Cherokee and his father is black. And I also know many BLACL people who are light skin with good hair or is dark skin with good hair. Just because you are light skin and/or have good hair and/or have colored eye does not ALWAYS mean your mixed. The black culture knows this but for some reason white people have a hard time believing it. GET OVER IT PEOPLE. She’s black and she said she is. Back then white people HATED biracial people now y’all get sad if they wanna just say they are white. Y’all are all some idiots. Crazy how things change.
Oops I meant to say * now y’all get upset if they wanna say that they are just black
And people also think if you are dark skinned that you are not mixed. My mothers friends daughter is literally the color of Wesley Snipes, coarse hair and all and her grandfather is 100% white. Its my mothers best friends daughter. You can be mixed and come out dark skinned with coarse kinky hair too.
@Mia123w, I totally agree with you. I know soooo many light blacks with two black parents.These days because of Halle Berry, lots of uneducated non-black sthink everyone with her look and lighter is mixed and they do not understand the diversity of black people. You do not have to be recently mixed to have very light skin and wavy hair, even light eyes and be black.
Exactly I have hazel eyes that change colors but I’m brown skinned while my daughter is a darker skinned with regular brown eyes but the prettiest curly hair that is considered good hair in the black community. We know that because of slavery we have capabilities to come out all colors and not be just one color and because of these genes we hold in our DNA we can produce babies with different color eyes…..THE JOYS OF BEING BLACK AMERICAN