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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-06-27 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Meera Syal

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal on 27 June 1961) is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42.

She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.

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Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Our Tiny Islands as Self - Narrator

2023

The Canterville Ghost as Lucretia Otis (voice)
The Smeds and the Smoos as Aunt Smed (voice)

2022

Roar as Anu
The Sandman as Ric the Vic
The Devil's Hour as Dr Ruby Bennett
The Devil's Hour as Dr. Ruby Bennett

2021

Spin as Asha
Diana's Decades as Narrator
The Wheel of Time as Verin Mathwin
We Are Lady Parts as Sister Squire

2020

Dragon Rider as Subisha Gulab (voice)
Kate & Koji as Dr Ayesha Radwan

2019

Yesterday as Sheila Malik

2018

The Homestay as Meera
Patrick as Miss Phillips
To Provide All People as District Nurse
The Split as Goldie

2017

Paddington 2 as Prosecutor
Richard Osman's House of Games as Self - Contestant
Our Lives as Self - Narrator

2016

Doctor Strange as Dr. Patel

2015

2014

The Kumars as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
The Musketeers as Theresa

2013

Broadchurch as Judge Sonia Sharma

2012

2010

Little Crackers as Herself

2009

Desert Flower as Pushpa Patel
Mad Sad & Bad as Rashmi
Horrible Histories as Storyteller

2008

Beautiful People as Aunty Hayley

2007

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Satvinder’s mother
Jekyll as Miranda
Kingdom as Head Teacher

2006

Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger
The One Show as Self - Guest
School's Out as Self
The One Show as Self

2005

Doctor Who as Nasreen Chaudhry
Nigella as Self

2004

2003

Murder Investigation Team as DCI Anita Wishart
QI as Self

2002

Anita and Me as Auntie Shaila
All About Me as Rupinder

2001

Bedtime as Ruby
In Deep as Marta Drusic

2000

Forgive and Forget as Judith Adams
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime as High Priestess
The Strangerers as Volunteer

1999

Bad Girls as Janan Hamad
Loose Women as Self

1998

Girls' Night as Carmen
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Madame Marlene
Parkinson as Self

1997

Keeping Mum as Tina Beare
Ruby as Self
Midsomer Murders as Clara Myerscough

1996

Beautiful Thing as Miss Chauhan
Crossing the Floor as Reporter

1995

It's Not Unusual as Shushila
Hamish Macbeth as Self - Narrator (voice)

1994

Memsahib Rita as Unumma
O Mary This London as Ranting woman
Room 101 as Self

1993

GMTV as Self

1992

My Sister-Wife as Farah Khan

1991

Soldier Soldier as Sangita Sharma

1990

1988

This Morning as Self

1987

1986

Handsworth Songs as Voice Over

1984

1983

Natural World as Narrator

1978

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Writing

2010

Little Crackers as Writer

2002

Anita and Me as Writer

1993

1992

My Sister-Wife as Writer

Production

2002

Anita and Me as Producer

Creator

1996