Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe is an actor and model of Austrian origin. He has starred in several television shows, including Soul Food and Second Time Around. Kodjoe spent most of his childhood in Germany where he developed a career in tennis. He moved to Virginia, United States, to study marketing and continue to play, but had to quit due to a back injury. He modeled for Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren and Perry Ellis and in the late 1990s started getting roles in film and television.MBM: Boris Kodjoe Biography

"We never wanted to raise the kids in Hollywood. We wanted to be in an environment that spoke to us, culturally. That's how we chose Atlanta and found our dream home."NewsBlaze: Boris Kodjoe "All about Us" Interview (July 21,2008)

"My grandmother's part Jewish, which makes my mother and myself Jewish, by blood. But we weren't raised in the Jewish faith."NewsBlaze: Boris Kodjoe "All about Us" Interview (July 21,2008)

"I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar."DallasBlack: Boris Kodjoe: Grateful for God, Gospel... (October 4, 2005)

"Oh, yeah, I’m a fool in love. Definitely. I’m lucky. I’m blessed. I was very single for a very long time. The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single. Quite single."DallasBlack: Boris Kodjoe: Grateful for God, Gospel... (October 4, 2005)