Ghanaian roots

Celebrity Buzz Born in Vienna to a Ghanaian doctor and a German psychologist: Boris Kodjoe’s route to Hollywood started on a tennis court Boris Kodjoe was born in Vienna in 1973 to Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician, and Ursula, a German psychologist. A tennis scholarship took him to Virginia, a modelling scout found him there, and Soul Food made him a star.