Buki Armstrong
Acting
Biography
Buki Armstrong is a British actress best known for her lead role as Pearl Parker in BBC drama South of the Border (1988-1990) and for playing Gerry in the BBC's ill-fated soap opera Eldorado. She is married to the actor and playwright Ayub Khan-Din.
Known For
The Catherine Tate Show
Comedy legend Catherine Tate plays all her best-loved characters in this riotous sketch show. Expect sulky teens, offensive nans and the most tactless women in the world.
Business as Usual
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
In the Beginning
In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered on NBC on November 12, 2000.
Shalom Salaam
Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.
A Masculine Ending
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Masculine Mescaline
A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.
South Of The Border
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
Filmography
as Hittite Woman #1
as Car Pound Attendant
as Bethany Edwards
as Candy
as Pearl Parker
as Paula Douglas