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.
She looks Like vera famiga from bates motel.
She looks very biracial.
People forget that there are subsaharan black Africans who look like this
http://i-cias.com/e.o/tuareg.htm
Most are from Niger and Mali which is considered subsaharan black West Africa. Africa as a continent was not divided in the past , with a subsaharan black line. So the entire African continent consisted of highly diverse light and dark skinned people, with all different hair textures from wavy to curly. The dessert Africans developed smaller features and looser hair than the forest Africans of Ghana, etc.
Niger and Mali West Africans have a different look.
The people who look like this is west africa or any part of africa is MIXED
@WestIndiangrl, NOT TRUE, there are light skinned full blood Africans who are black. Stop the mixed agenda you are promoting. Africa has ALWAYS BEEN a continent with dark, light and near white people to the North. All Africa was unified. There was no dividing line between south and north Africa until white Europeans got there. Fulanis, Igbos Nigerians, Ethiopians, San Bushmen of South Africa, North Africans, Tanzanians can have light skin.
What do you mean by near white? Do you mean like the bushmen with their yellowish skin? However since forms of albinism are common in Africa, and most likely were common back then, who knows(I never thought about it before)
(There was no dividing line between south and north Africa until white Europeans got there. )
You’re right, that was all a European invention
@ fuzzybear
LOL. Do European invented the desert of Sahara too?
@midori
off topic again. The chick here is heavily European influenced, showing Caucasoid Tuaregs isn’t best way to justify her features
@Andrew
(LOL. Do European invented the desert of Sahara too?)
No Andrew, they didn’t invent the Sahara. however what they did invent was the misconception that black people were somehow confined to one part of Africa, which was a complete lie. Those country borders weren’t there in the past. Also during colonialism Europeans pushes as many of the native populations off their lands as they could, just like they did everywhere else.
@WestIndiangrl, sadly to this day there are still black people who know absolutely nothing about Africa and their own race. Other races study black Africa more than blacks do. Promoting ignorance. The bones found in Ethiopia East Arica are some of the oldest on earth and scientists have proven that the facial structure and skin tone o the Ethiopians and other East Africans came BEFORE white European Caucasians. So no their look is not from admixture.
@midori29
(sadly to this day there are still black people who know absolutely nothing about Africa and their own race. Other races study black Africa more than blacks do. Promoting ignorance. )
Well thanks to the African studies programs at varies colleges, that’s changing. You’re right, the Caucasoid traits were around long before the pale skin mutation appeared
True. A lot of people of Niger and the Sahel have mixed ancestry that go back thousands of years. Tuaregs are Berbers (who are indigenous to North Africa and have been in Africa since before written history) but Sub Saharan Africans don’t always have the stereotypical big nose, lips etc. Fulani and Woddabe tribe have slender noses and long features. Dinka people of Sudan are pitch black but can have blue eyes. San Bush men are light red skin with seemingly “Asian” features but have some of the oldest dna of human kind. Humans moved back and forth in and out of Africa due to climate change resulting in a wide variety of DNA and facial types. European admixture is a very recent occurrence.
@Fuzzy bear, I totally agree with you
@Andrew, no this woman is not heavily European influenced. What I meant is before the dividing sub-Saharan African line, Africa was one continent with light and dark peoples from the North to the South. People were just AFRICAN. Whites came in and divided ALL of Africa, with their labels like “Caucasian” and “negroid”. Black people did not do this. These whites came from Europe not Africa. There were light skinned peoples already living in North Africa. Africa by itself was a continent that had different skin tones, facial features and hair textures. I am not using the tauregs to justify this woman but people need to realize that West Africa is not all dark skinned.
@Andrew , in Baltimore MD there are PLENTY of black women who look like Nicole Ari Parker, plenty
@Memphis, who divided and labled Africa? White Europeans did, they divided the people by skin tone but before the Europeans came to Africa, THEY WERE ALL AFRICANS LIGHT AND DARK. So West Africa was a mega diverse place even before Africans came to America as slaves.
Whites invented the name Berber, black people did not. You are believing history as told by a white European and Not an African. You should believe the Africans, they were there first.
Tuaregs are mostly a Caucasian Berber people mixed with Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Berbers are indigenous to North Africa and did not originate in the Caucasus (Central Asians,Armenia,Georgia). To call them “Caucasians” is misleading. Implying a “whiteness” which has its social advantages because racism is huge among Africans. Indeed many North Africans have Turkish, some Arab, Roman, distant Vandals, Jews and Sub Saharan ancestors depending on the country. Tuaregs were pretty much conquered and were hijackers and slave traders but they would enslave anyone.
@Memphis , I agree. But I do not know why people cannot fathom that West Africa was skin tone diverse to begin with because people migrate. The north Africans light skinned people likely ventured down and mated with the darker ones. And vice versa. Its only modern day Africa that white Europeans came in and told the people from the North that they were different from the Southern blacks because they had straight wavy hair and narrow features. of course whites did the same thing to the African slaves in America.
She’s African American, married a blackman born in germany who’s half German and African.. whose nationality is german, so he’s African German, they have a couple of kids who look totally white by american standards..however, both parents are raising them as african-german american..goggle a photo of the kids and husband.
Actually their kids are a medium brown and would not be considered white by american standards they would be considered black
Beautiful black woman.