Kodjoe was born on March 8 in 1973. This makes his age 43 years old as of 2016. Kodjoe has been able to be a successful and accomplished actor in his life. He was born in Vienna which is located in Austria. So, it’s obvious that his nationality is Austrian. However, since he pursued and developed his career in Germany, he also has German nationality. Kodjoe’s ethnicity is black. He has altogether two siblings in his family whose names are Patrick Kodjoe and Nadja Kodjoe.
Kodjoe was born to his parents, Ursula Kodjoe and Eric Kodjoe. Ursula was a german psychologist who was of Jewish descent. Similarly, his father was a Ghanian physician. Kodjoe is a very tall and handsome guy. He has an amazing height of 6 feet and 3 inches. Kodjoe is a handsome looking tall guy and he has founded several clothing line till now.
Kodjoe studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and received graduation in 1996 with a bachelor degree in the field of marketing. He was ninth in the school history with an astounding 75 single wins in tennis. His brother also used to play for the basketball team in the university. Sadly, a back injury led to the demise of Kodjoe’s aspiration to become a national tennis player. However, soon enough, he received an opportunity to become a model and thereafter, he entered into acting.
Kodjoe has performed in a lot of movies and tv shows till now. He is mostly known for performing as Kelby in the film Brown Sugar (2002), and the sports agent Damon Carter on the drama series Soul Food. He is also known as a co-star on Real Husbands of Hollywood and was an important character on The Last Man on Earth by FOX.
character on The Last Man on Earth by FOX. He has also performed several shirtless scenes in his movies as well. Besides, in a recent interview, Kodjoe talked about his upcoming movies in the future.
Kodjoe was dating his girlfriend named Nicole Ari Parker, his costar on the Soul Food series, for quite a long time. The affair between the pair got deeper and deeper and the couple were eventually married to each other as husband and wife. The couple were married in 2005 and since then they have been living a happy married life. It does not seem like the couple would divorce anytime soon in the near future. The couple has altogether two children or kids whose names are Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe and his daughter, Sophie Tei Naaki Lee Kodjoe.
Kodjoe is also very active in social networking sites like twitter, facebook and instagram. He has an astounding 550 thousand followers in twitter and has already tweeted about 12 thousand times till now. Kodjoe has uploaded a lot of pictures and videos in his twitter account. Similarly, Kodjoe is also active in instagram. He has 500 thousand followers in instagram and about 600 posts. Kodjoe has shared a lot of posts to his followers in instagram related to his personal life.
Kodjoe has earned a lot throughout his career contributing him to an astounding net worth of $ 8 million US dollars sufficient to live a comfortable and luxurious life anyone can dream of. At this pace, Kodjoe is certainly going to enjoy a greater net worth in the future. For more information regarding Kodjoe’s biography, you can visit several wiki sites in the internet or other sites like IMDb.