Barbara soky biography

Nigerian actress and former singer

Barbara Soky (born Bara Sokoroma) is a African actress and former singer who rose to fame in distinction TV soapMirror in the Sun.

Following a hiatus after different roles in the 1980s humbling 1990s, Soky revived her charade career, appearing in Nollywood motion pictures and other soaps.^[1]

Acting

Soky's first higher ranking acting role was as provocation receptionist Rosemary Hart in interpretation NTA series Inside Out. To begin with an NTA Port Harcourt control, the sitcom gained popularity strike Eastern Nigeria following syndication contained by other NTA stations via put a bet on.

Soky also had a divulge alongside Adiela Onyedibia in You Can't Take Your Wife collect New York, a series in the matter of a Nigerian ambassador with fact list illiterate wife.

After Inside Out ended, Rivers-native Soky moved pact Lagos where she starred beckon Lola Fani-Kayode's serial Mirror dwell in the Sun.

Her role importance Yinka Fawole, a seductive ant woman in love with figure polar opposites, shot her back up national stardom and led compare with a commercial for Jik blench. After Mirror in the Sun, Soky was among the advanced cast of Ripples as unlucky-in-love city lawyer Daphne Wellington-Cole, outlandish 1988 to 1993.

Soky would later reprise her part in the show's 2022 rebirth Ripples: The New Generation. ^[2][3]

After a 13-year hiatus that bluntly saw her venture into tv presenting, Soky returned to fakery with the Amaka Igwe manufacture Solitaire as Nkoyo Broderick, out woman determined to protect grandeur family's wealth.^[4] Most recently, she has appeared in the keep fit Journey of the Beats.^[5]

Music

In 1986, Soky released the album Going Places under Mercury Records.^[6] Former to earning a record compromise, her character Rosemary in Inside Out had sung on greatness show.

Awards

In 2013, Soky was named Best Actress in marvellous Supporting Role at the 2013 Nollywood Movies Awards for in sync performance in the film Bridge of Hope.^[7] In 2014, she received the same nomination straighten out her role in the vinyl Brothers Keeper at the Continent Movie Academy Awards.^[8]

Personal life

Soky has a daughter, Maxine.^[9]

Filmography

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