Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe: Biography in Details

Who is Boris Kodjoe? 

Austrian-German Boris Kodjoe is a 5X Image Award Nominated actor, model, and producer. He is renowned as Luther of Resident Evil.

Last, in 2020, he appeared in the series, Station 19 as Robert Sullivan. Next, he will be appearing in the movie, Nicole and O.J. as O.J. Simpson.

Boris Kodjoe: Age, Parents, Ethnicity

Boris Kodjoe was born on the 8th of March 1973 in the capital of Austria, Vienna to Ursula, and Eric Kodjoe. His birth name is Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe.

Boris Kodjoe is of African-Germanic ethnicity with Ghanaian roots.

His father, Eric Kodjoe is a physician by profession whereas his mother, Ursula is a psychologist. He has three siblings including two sisters; Nadja and Lara and a brother, Patrick.

Education

Talking about this educational background, Boris Kodjoe graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with Honors in Marketing. He attended the university with a tennis scholarship.

Initially, he decided to take his career forward as a tennis player. However, due to the back injury, he decided to give up on his tennis career.

Boris Kodjoe: Professional life, Career

Acting & Modeling Career

After withdrawing from tennis, Boris Kodjoe moved to New York and expanded his career as a model. As a model, he worked for the Ford Models Agency and many more.

Moving forward, he explored his career in acting. For that, he also joined acting classes. In 1995, he first appeared in the video, Red Line Special for the TLC.

Later, in 2000, Boris Kodjoe made his movie debut with Love & Basketball. In the movie, he appeared in a supporting role as Jason.

After that, he started making appearances in TV series too. Some of his popular series of the time include the series, Soul Food. 

In 2009, Boris Kodjoe featured the movie, Surrogates. In the movie, he is portraying the character of Stone. The character became one of the milestones of his career.

After that, Boris Kodjoe was cast in movies like Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: Retribution as Luther West.

Following those movies, he appeared in series like Code Black, House of Cards, and Station 19. 

Career as Producer

In 2004, Boris Kodjoe made his debut with the video, Doing a Hard Time. After the video, he was busy with his acting assignments. Hence, he took a break as a producer.

In 2005, he resumed his production career with the TV series, The Boris & Nicole Show. He happens to be a co-executive producer of the series.

In the following year, Boris Kodjoe produced the mini-series, Cape Town. Also, he has been featured in the series as Sanctus Snook in the series.

Last, he announced his upcoming TV series documentary, Untitled Novak Djokovic Series. He happens to be a co-executive producer of the show.

Boris Kodjoe: Net Worth, Salary

As of 2023, Boris Kodjoe has an estimated net worth of $5 million. As an actor, his earnings are in the range of $21k to $215k.

Besides that, he also makes through his production works. Apart from that, as a model, his earnings range from $21k to $204k.

Box Office Collection

Boris Kodjoe’s net worth is attributed to the box office collection of his movies. Some of his movie’s box office collections along with the year are:

Boris Kodjoe: Controversy & Rumors

As of now, Boris Kodjoe has managed to maintain his dignity as an actor and model.

To date, he has not been involved in any sort of controversy or scandal that created a buzz in the media.

Also, he has remained far from any sort of rumors too.

Body Measurements: Height & Weight

Boris Kodjoe has black eyes with clean-shaven hair.

His height is 6 feet 3 inches and weighs 84 kg.

Social Media

Boris Kodjoe has over 1.3 million followers on Instagram, over 1.9m followers on Facebook, and over 568.1k followers on Twitter.

On Twitter, he is following the personalities like Dr. Rashawn Ray, Malcolm Nance, and Joe Rogan.

Trivia

• Her daughter, Sophie with diagnosed with Spina Bifida at birth.
• Named as one of 50 Most Beautiful People in the World 2002.

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