Actress Nicole Ari Parker Covers "VIV" Magazine

VIV magazine‘s Spring 2012 issues features actress Nicole Ari Parker. The 41 yr old mother of two will be starring in a new Broadway play, called ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Alongside actors Blair Underwood, Wood Harris & others, Parker will be playing the character of Blanche Dubois. Check out what she had to say inside the magazine which is on new stands now

Actress Nicole Ari Parker Releases GymWrap For Your Hair

Actress Nicole Ari Parker is releasing an invention that many women could use while hitting the gym.

Check out the info on the Gymwrap below and watch Nicole’s video right after that.

"Save Your Do™ GymWrap is a stylish headband developed with a patent-pending revolutionary “Edge Control Technology” that minimizes sweat absorption through a unique blend of materials that allows heat to escape while letting cool air in. The idea for the Save Your Do™ Gymwrap came to me last year when I noticed a common excuse emerge among busy everyday women myself included about why they couldn’t work out: their hair. Hair is a serious issue for most of us women because after spending a ton of time and money to have it washed, blowdried, flat-ironed and curled, none of us want to sweat and mess it up all over again."

Also, 10% of all “Save Your Do” proceeds benefits Sophie’s Voice Foundation, a non-profit foundation Nicole started with her husband Boris Kodjoe that helps to raise awareness for Myelomeningocele (Spina bifida). Their 7 year-old daughter Sophie was diagnosed with the disease when she was just a baby.

Blair Underwood & Nicole Ari Parker Hitting Broadway

The pair set to star in a "Streetcar Named Desire" along with Wood Harris.

Another classic play is getting a modernized, with an all star black cast.

Blair Underwood will star as Stanley in a new multi-racial production of the Tennessee Williams classic drama Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway.

The production, which will feature original music by jazz trumpeter great Terrance Blanchard, opens April 3, 2012, and will enjoy a limited run from April 22 thru July 22 at New York City's Broadhurst Theatre.

Tickets for Streetcar Named Desire go on sale February 6.

Happy Birthday Boris Kodjoe!

Happy Birthday to actor Boris Kodjoe - who turns 36 today. Back in the early 90's Boris worked as model, and my best friend worked at his modeling agency. BFF told me that Kodjoe always made the middle-aged German secretary at the agency SWOON by speaking to her in fluent German.

Kodjoe was born in Austria to a German psychologist mother and a Ghanaian physician father, exactly 36 years-ago. QUITE the sexy combination, don't you think?

Boris and his wife, actress Nicole Ari Parker, reside in Atlanta with their two children.

Interesting fact: Boris was born Jewish (through his mother and maternal grandmother), but is now a member of Atlanta's Cascade United Methodist Church.