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Buki Armstrong

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

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5.4

Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

Eldorado

1992
South of the Border
10.0

Female private detectives Pearl Parker and Finn Gallagher operate within the bustling multicultural communities of South London.

South of the Border

1988
The Catherine Tate Show
6.9

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.

The Catherine Tate Show

2004
In the Beginning
6.4

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.

In the Beginning

2000
A Masculine Ending
8.0

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.

A Masculine Ending

1992
Business as Usual
6.5

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.

Business as Usual

1987
Masculine Mescaline
N/A

A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.

Masculine Mescaline

1996
Shalom Salaam
N/A

Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.

Shalom Salaam

1989