Broadway BUZZ

Seven-time NAACP Image Award nominee Nicole Ari Parker (actor/producer/entrepreneur/philanthropist) is best known for her outstanding performance as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s award-winning original series Soul Food. Next up, she will be returning in the second season of the Max reboot of the iconic comedy Sex and The City, And Just Like That…, alongside original cast members including Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, expected to hit the streamer later this month. Parker has previously been featured in a variety of hit television series including NBC’s Chicago P.D., Fox’s Empire, TV Land’s Younger, Amazon’s The Romanoffs, and Showtime’s I'm Dying up Here. In 2016, she starred in the Universal ensemble comedy Almost Christmas opposite Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union and co-starred in the ABC drama series Time After Time. In 2018, she co-starred in the Netflix film How It Ends, alongside Forest Whitaker, Theo James, and Kat Graham. In 2015, Parker recurred opposite Morris Chestnut in the FOX series Rosewood and guest starred with Kevin Hart and husband Boris Kodjoe in the hit BET series The Real Husbands of Hollywood. Late last year she made a guest appearance in the TV series The Best Man: The Final Chapters where she joined the iconic cast to wrap up the ongoing drama series. Parker commanded the stage at the Broadhurst Theater in her 2012 Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Blair Underwood for director Emily Mann. Her powerful performance as Blanche earned her an Outer Critics Award nomination. In 2014, she reunited with director Emily Mann as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the McCarter Theatre Center. Parker is a graduate of NYU’s famed Tisch School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Studio. She has received a special award at the Urban World Film Festival, for Outstanding Body of Work as an Actress.