Boris Kodjoe

Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist of partially Jewish descent, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician who is of the Krobo people[citation needed]. His namesake is the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. Kodjoe\'s matrilineal great-grandmother was Jewish and died in the Holocaust; his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding. Kodjoe\'s parents divorced when he was six years old. He grew up in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau. Kodjoe is fluent in German, English, and French, and speaks some Spanish. He has a brother named Patrick and two sisters named Nadja and Lara.\n', '

Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship, and graduated with a bachelor\'s degree in marketing in 1996. A four-year letterman on the Rams\' men\'s tennis team, he is currently ninth in school history with 75 career singles wins. Ti…