Boris Kodjoe

Boris Frederic Cecil TayNatey OfuateyKodjoe , better known as Boris Kodjoe, is an actor known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, and the sportscourier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food. He currently costars on BETs Real Husbands of Hollywood and was a recurring character on FOXs The Last Man on Earth.

Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist of partially Jewish descent, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician who is of the Nzema people. His namesake is the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. Kodjoes matrilineal greatgrandmother was Jewish and died in the Holocaust his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding. Kodjoes parents divorced when he was six years old. He grew up in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau. Kodjoe is fluent in German, English, and French, and speaks some Spanish. He has a brother named Patrick and two sisters named Nadja and Lara.

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