Meera Syal
Birthday
1961/06/27 (63 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(2006) Scoop
as Joe's Co-Passenger
(1996) Beautiful Thing
as Miss Chauhan
(1998) Girls' Night
as Carmen
(2009) Desert Flower
as Pushpa Patel
(2021) Spin
as Asha
(2022) The Almond and the Seahorse
as Dr. Falmer
(2006) The Children's Party at the Palace
as Mary (The BFG)
(1997) A Night in with the Girls
as ---
(2002) Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
as Narrator
Flavia de Luce
as ---
(2012) All in Good Time
as Lopa
(2009) Mad Sad & Bad
as Rashmi
(2016) A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Presenter
(2015) Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
as Narrator
(2017) Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
as Priri
(2023) The Canterville Ghost
as Lucretia Otis (voice)
(1992) My Sister-Wife
as Farah Khan
(2000) Forgive and Forget
as Judith Adams
(1994) A Nice Arrangement
as Sita
(1995) It's Not Unusual
as Shushila
(2012) Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
(2014) The Boy in the Dress
as Jaspreet
(2023) The Smeds and the Smoos
as Aunt Smed (voice)
(2018) The Homestay
as Meera
(2007) Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
as Satvinder’s mother
(1986) Handsworth Songs
as Voice Over
(2015) Absolutely Anything
as Fiona
(2016) Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
(2016) Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Nobody (voice)
(2010) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Dia's Mother
(2015) National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
as Zehrunisa Husain
(2002) Anita and Me
as Auntie Shaila
(2018) Patrick
as Miss Phillips
(2017) Paddington 2
as Prosecutor
(2020) Dragon Rider
as Subisha Gulab (voice)
(1996) Crossing the Floor
as Reporter
(2018) To Provide All People
as District Nurse
(2018) Nativity Rocks!
as Nina
(1987) Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
as Rani
(2019) Yesterday
as Sheila Malik
(1994) Memsahib Rita
as Unumma
(2018) The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Cook
(2016) Doctor Strange
as Dr. Patel
(1984) Majdhar
as ---
(2000) Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
as High Priestess
(1994) O Mary This London
as Ranting woman
(2015) Amar Akbar & Tony
as Honey
(2024) Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self
(2006) The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as ---
(2007) Jekyll
as Miranda
(1988) This Morning
as Self
(2001) The Kumars at No. 42
as ---
(2005) Monkey Trousers
as ---
(2000) Fat Friends
as ---
(2006) The One Show
as Self - Guest
(2002) All About Me
as Rupinder
(1984) The Bill
as ---
(1996) Goodness Gracious Me
as ---
(1983) Taggart
as ---
(2004) Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
(2003) Murder Investigation Team
as DCI Anita Wishart
(2005) 8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
(2017) We Have Been Watching
as Self
(1992) Absolutely Fabulous
as Suzy
(2000) The Strangerers
as ---
(2006) School's Out
as Self
(1991) The Real McCoy
as ---
(2007) The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
(2001) Bedtime
as Ruby
(2002) Johnny Vaughan Tonight
as Self
(2004) Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
as ---
(1983) Natural World
as Narrator
(1997) Keeping Mum
as Tina Beare
(1993) GMTV
as Self
(1999) It's Only TV But I Like It
as Self
(2021) Diana's Decades
as Narrator
(2008) When Were We Funniest?
as ---
(2005) Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
as ---
(2005) Doctor Who
as Nasreen Chaudhry
(2014) The Kumars
as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
(2009) Horrible Histories
as Storyteller
(1999) Bad Girls
as Janan Hamad
(2003) QI
as Self
(1987) The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Matron
(2002) The Jury
as ---
(2001) In Deep
as Marta Drusic
(2007) Kingdom
as Head Teacher
(2021) Beena and Amrit
as Amrit
(2005) Nigella
as Self
(2006) The One Show
as Self
(2014) The Musketeers
as Theresa
(1990) Drop the Dead Donkey
as Barmaid
(1997) Ruby
as Self
(2014) Original Comedy Shorts
as ---
(2015) Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
as ---
(2016) Walliams & Friend
as Various
(1997) Holding On
as ---
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(2021) The Wheel of Time
as Verin Mathwin
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Clara Myerscough
(2023) Mrs Sidhu Investigates
as Mrs. Sidhu
(1990) Have I Got News for You
as Herself
(2010) Little Crackers
as Herself
(2022) Roar
as Anu
(2014) Duck Quacks Don't Echo
as ---
(1994) Room 101
as Self
(2022) The Sandman
as Ric the Vic
(2017) Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant
(2016) John Bishop: In Conversation with...
as Self
(2022) The Devil's Hour
as Dr Ruby Bennett
(2022) The Devil's Hour
as Dr. Ruby Bennett
(2013) Broadchurch
as Judge Sonia Sharma
(2018) The Split
as Goldie
(2020) Kate & Koji
as Dr Ayesha Radwan
(2021) We Are Lady Parts
as Sister Squire
(2008) Beautiful People
as Aunty Hayley
(1999) Loose Women
as Self
(1998) The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Madame Marlene
(1991) Soldier Soldier
as Sangita Sharma
(2017) Our Lives
as Self - Narrator
(1995) Hamish Macbeth
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2024) Our Tiny Islands
as Self - Narrator
(1998) Parkinson
as Self
(1987) A Little Princess
as Anna
(2020) Between the Covers
as Self