Actress Nicole Ari Parker will make her Broadway debut as Blanche Du Bois, opposite actor Blair Underwood as Stanley Kowalski, in “A Streetcar Named Desire” this spring.
Parker, best known for her role in the TV series “Soul Food” and for appearances in the films “Boogie Nights” and “Remember the Titans,” will be the latest actress to tackle the role.
Nicole Ari Parker eloped with actor Joseph Falasca in March 2001. Their marriage lasted only eight months; they divorced later that year. She married her “Soul Food” co-star Boris Kodjoe in May 2005.
She gave birth to their first child, a girl, Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe, on March 5, 2005. Sophie has Spina Bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. Parker gave birth to the couple’s second child, Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, a boy, on October 31, 2006 in Atlanta.
The play is expected to run in 2012.
