His breakthrough role was as sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food His other notable television roles include Dr.
Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old, [ 5 ] and he moved to Germany at that time. He grew up in the town of Gundelfingen , near Freiburg im Breisgau. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in Tied for third in doubles victories with 66, he was paired with Jonas Elmblad on 37 of them, also third all-time.
A back injury ended Boris' tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as a model and, soon after, entered acting. Named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People magazine in , Kodjoe is perhaps best known as one of the 7 regular cast members from the Showtime drama Soul Food , which aired from to He had a supporting role in the science fiction film Surrogates. Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw starred as a husband-and-wife secret agent team in J. That year, he also appeared as Luther in the film Resident Evil: Afterlife.
In , he was cast as a regular on the ABC primetime soap opera Members Only created by Susannah Grant , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] but the show never aired. Will Campbell from to In July , Kodjoe landed a recurring role in the second season of the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Station She gave birth to their first child, Sophia, in March , who was diagnosed with spina bifida at birth.
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