Nadja Kodjoe is the elder sister of popular American actor Boris Kodjoe. She also has a younger brother Patrick Kodjoe and a sister Lara Kodjoe.
Personal information
Not much is known about the early life of Nadja Kodjoe. She currently goes by the name Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard. She has a degree in journalism and currently lives in Munich, Germany. Nadja is an esteemed director and recently directed a film series known as the ReMIX Africa in Translation.
She has been working as an artistic director and a project manager at Each One Teach One (EOTO) since 2017 in Berlin. She also co-directed the BIGSAS festival of African and African-diasporic Literature at the University of Bayreuth.
Parents and family members
Nadja Kodjoe is half German and half Ghanaian and the eldest daughter of Dr. Eric Ofuatey-Kodjoe, a physician who sadly died in 2016 at 78 years of age, and Ursula Kodjoe, a German psychologist who now lives in the Freiburg, Germany. Apart from being a psychologist, Ursula also has a degree in social pedagogue and she conducts various seminars all over the country on similar topics.
Nadja’s parents got divorced in 1979 when Boris Kodjoe was just 6 years old. After the divorce, Nadja came to Germany with her mother and siblings and where she has chosen to continue to live till now. Nadja’s great-grandmother was Jewish and was murdered in the Holocaust while her grandmother survived.
Boris Kodjoe
Boris Kodjoe is the younger brother of Nadja Kodjoe. Boris Kodjoe was born in the year in 1973 in Vienna, Austria, and is currently 49 years old. Boris Kodjoe attended the Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in marketing. He got his first break in acting when he featured in a music video for the song Red Light Special. In 2002, he starred in the hit film Brown Sugar with Nicole Ari Parker, who he eventually married in 2005.
Boris was also named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in the year 2002 by People magazine. In 2010, Boris starred in a TV series with Gugu Mbatha-Raw known as the Undercovers, but the show was shelved after just one season. In 2010, he also appeared in another popular movie, Resident Evil: the Afterlife. In 2018, Boris was cast in Grey’s Anatomy spinoff show, Station 19. He became a series regular on that show in October 2018.
Boris got married to Nicole Ari Parker in 2005 in Germany after dating for three years. They had their first child, a baby girl, in March 2005 and later, a boy in October 2006.
Nadja Kodjoe Net worth
Nadja Kodjoe is a very private person and not much is known about her private life or her net worth. However, her brother, Boris Kodjoe, is a famous Hollywood actor with a net worth of $8 million. His wife, Nicole Ari Parker, has a net worth of $5 million. Both of the actors are popular and known for their acting skills and charisma.