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I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis. That's what happened.

Boris Kodjoe

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Boris Kodjoe
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: March 8
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Vienna
Austria
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe
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