Celebrity of the week( Boris Kodjoe)

Birth Name: Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe

Birth Place: Vienna, Austria

Ethnicity:*Ghanaian (father)*German, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Boris Kodjoe is an actor. He was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Ghanaian father and a German mother. He resides in the United States, and is married to actress Nicole Ari Parker.Boris’s maternal grandmother’s mother was Jewish, and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The rest of Boris’s mother’s ancestry appears to be non-Jewish German. Boris is fluent in German, French, English, and Spanish.Boris is known for his role in the Show time drama Soul Food. He also starred in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar.One of Boris’s grandfathers was named Cecil.
Named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People magazine in 2002, Kodjoe is perhaps best known as one of the seven regular cast members from the Showtime drama Soul Food, which aired from 2000 to 2004. He 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. He played the role of David Taylor, the wayward son of Pastor Fred Taylor in the October 2005 film The Gospel.

Nicole Ari Parker is madly in love with husband, Boris Kodjoe. That we know for sure! Parker spoke about the moment she met the man of her dreams on the set of"Soul Food." How romantic! She says, "When Boris walked into our first rehearsal, I thought of him as the really hot guy that got to play my boyfriend in the first couple episodes," reports YBF."But for some reason we connected and found it easy to talk to each other and laugh and be comfortable... and then I married him. Vanessa called it from the beginning just like a sister would."The two have been married for six years and have two beautiful children, Sophie and Nelson. Kodjoe was once recorded saying, "Nicole and I make a big effort to keep it sexy. We go out on dates, we work out together and we make sure we look good for the other."Talk about keeping it sexy. This couple is the definition of eye candy --