Simply nicole ari parker biography of william

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Actor

Parker, Nicole Ari, photograph.

Stage and screen veteran Nicole Ari Parker is best known for her role as the icy attorney Teri on the acclaimed Showtime original series Soul Food. She and her real-life partner, fellow actor and Soul Food alumnus Boris Kodjoe, landed their own sitcom, Second Time Around, which made its debut on the UPN in the fall of 2004.

Their tempestuous pairing on Soul Food had helped make the show a winner with viewers, and Parker told Ebony writer Zondra Hughes, "that's the great thing about Second Time Around—this show is fulfilling for the fans who loved Teri and Damon's relationship.

They finally get to see Damon and Teri happy."

Born in 1970, Parker grew up in the Baltimore, Maryland, area, where her father was a dentist and her mother a health-care professional; they later divorced. She attended an all-female private school, where for a time she was the sole African-American student