Nicole Ari Parker Joins Empire As Forest Whitaker’s Ex-WifePosted by Wilson Morales
December 12, 2017
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Nicole Ari Parker is set for a recurring role opposite Forest Whitaker on Fox’s hit hip-hop drama series Empire.
Parker will play Giselle Barker, Eddie Barker’s (Whitaker) beautiful trophy ex-wife. Her character will be introduced in Wednesday’s mid-season finale, “Slave To Memory.”
Season 4 has seen Lucious (Terrence Howard) battling to regain his physical and mental faculties after the explosion and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) with her own challenges, revisiting her traumatic 17 years in prison in a series of flashbacks. With Lucious coming back, Eddie is concluding his tenure at Empire but when one never knows if he can easily let go of the power he just received.
Best known for her role as Teri Joseph on the Soul Food television series, Parker’s recent credits include Universal’s Almost Christmas with Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union and TV One’s original film Downsized in which she stars opposite husband Boris Kodjoe. Ironically, Parker and Whitaker appeared together in Redemption, which also starred Anthony Mackie and Sanaa Lathan.
She’s repped by Gersh and LINK Entertainment.
