Meera Syal

Personal Info

Known For Actor

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meera Syal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2024
Our Tiny Islands

as Self - Narrator

2023
The Canterville Ghost

as Lucretia Otis (voice)

2023
The Smeds and the Smoos

as Aunt Smed (voice)

2023
2022
2022
The Devil's Hour

as Dr Ruby Bennett

2022
The Devil's Hour

as Dr. Ruby Bennett

2022
The Sandman

as Ric the Vic

2022
Roar

as Anu

2021
Spin

as Asha

2021
The Wheel of Time

as Verin Mathwin

2021
2021
Diana's Decades

as Narrator

2021
We Are Lady Parts

as Sister Squire

2020
Dragon Rider

as Subisha Gulab (voice)

2020
Between the Covers

as Self - Interviewed Guest

2020
Kate & Koji

as Dr Ayesha Radwan

2019
Yesterday

as Sheila Malik

2018
2018
Patrick

as Miss Phillips

2018
To Provide All People

as District Nurse

2018
The Homestay

as Meera

2018
The Split

as Goldie

2017
Paddington 2

as Prosecutor

2017
Richard Osman's House of Games

as Self - Contestant

2017
Our Lives

as Self - Narrator

2016
Doctor Strange

as Dr. Patel

2016
2016
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
The Musketeers

as Theresa

2014
The Kumars

as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar

2013
Broadchurch

as Judge Sonia Sharma

2012
2012
2010
Little Crackers

as Herself

2009
Desert Flower

as Pushpa Patel

2009
Mad Sad & Bad

as Rashmi

2009
Horrible Histories

as Storyteller

2008
Beautiful People

as Aunty Hayley

2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

as Satvinder’s mother

2007
Jekyll

as Miranda

2007
Kingdom

as Head Teacher

2006
Scoop

as Joe's Co-Passenger

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2006
The One Show

as Self

2006
School's Out

as Self

2005
Nigella

as Self

2005
2005
Doctor Who

as Nasreen Chaudhry

2003
QI

as Self

2003
Murder Investigation Team

as DCI Anita Wishart

2002
Anita and Me

as Auntie Shaila

2002
All About Me

as Rupinder

2001
Bedtime

as Ruby

2001
In Deep

as Marta Drusic

2000
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

as High Priestess

2000
Forgive and Forget

as Judith Adams

1999
Loose Women

as Self

1999
Bad Girls

as Janan Hamad

1998
Girls' Night

as Carmen

1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

as Madame Marlene

1998
Parkinson

as Self

1997
Ruby

as Self

1997
Keeping Mum

as Tina Beare

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Clara Myerscough

1996
Crossing the Floor

as Reporter

1996
Beautiful Thing

as Miss Chauhan

1995
It's Not Unusual

as Shushila

1995
Hamish Macbeth

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1994
1994
O Mary This London

as Ranting woman

1994
Memsahib Rita

as Unumma

1994
Room 101

as Self

1993
GMTV

as Self

1992
My Sister-Wife

as Farah Khan

1991
Soldier Soldier

as Sangita Sharma

1988
This Morning

as Self

1987
1986
Handsworth Songs

as Voice Over

1983
Natural World

as Narrator

Writer

2010
Little Crackers

as Writer

2002
Anita and Me

as Writer

1993
1992
My Sister-Wife

as Writer

Producer

2002
Anita and Me

as Producer

Creator

1996