16 Facts About Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Soul Food and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Real Husbands of Hollywood.

Boris Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist of Jewish descent, and Eric Boris Kodjoe, a Ga-Dangme Ghanaian physician.

Boris Kodjoe's namesake is the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak.

Boris Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old, and he moved to Germany at that time.

Boris Kodjoe grew up in the town of Gundelfingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau.

Boris Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996.

Boris Kodjoe appeared in the 2002 film Brown Sugar and starred in the short-lived sitcom Second Time Around with his Soul Food co-star Nicole Ari Parker, whom he eventually married.

Boris Kodjoe played the role of David Taylor, the wayward son of Pastor Fred Taylor, in the October 2005 film The Gospel.

Boris Kodjoe had a supporting role in the 2009 science fiction film Surrogates.

From 2013 to 2016, Boris Kodjoe starred as a fictional version of himself in the BET comedy parody series Real Husbands of Hollywood.

In 2015, Boris Kodjoe began a recurring guest role on Fox's The Last Man on Earth television series.

Boris Kodjoe was part of the ensemble cast for all three seasons of the CBS medical drama Code Black playing surgeon Dr Will Campbell from 2016 to 2018.

In July 2018, Boris Kodjoe landed a recurring role in the second season of the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Station 19.

Boris Kodjoe married his Soul Food: The Series co-star Nicole Ari Parker on May 21,2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany.

Boris Kodjoe gave birth to their first child, Sophia, in March 2005, who was diagnosed with spina bifida at birth.

Parker and Boris Kodjoe competed against one another on a February 2019 episode of Lip Sync Battle.