I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Parker gave birth to the couple's second child a boy Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe on October 31 2006. She gave birth to their first child a girl Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe on March 5 2005. Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old and he grew up in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau.

He is perhaps best known for his role as courier-turned-sports agent Damon Carter on the Showtime television drama series Soul Food and for his role as David Taylor in the film The Gospel. Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe (pron.