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Meera Syal
Meera Syal

Meera Syal

ActingBorn June 27, 1961 (age 64)Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2025TV
2025
Tinsel Town

as Cassandra

Movie
2024Movie
2024
Our Tiny Islands

as Self - Narrator

TV
2023
The Canterville Ghost

as Lucretia Otis (voice)

Movie
2023TV
2023
The Smeds and the Smoos

as Aunt Smed (voice)

Movie
2022Movie
2022
The Devil's Hour

as Dr Ruby Bennett

TV
2022
The Devil's Hour

as Dr. Ruby Bennett

TV
2022
The Sandman

as Ric the Vic

TV
2022
Roar

as Anu

TV
2021
The Wheel of Time

as Verin Mathwin

TV
2021TV
2021
Spin

as Asha

Movie
2021
Diana's Decades

as Narrator

TV
2021
We Are Lady Parts

as Sister Squire

TV
2020
Dragon Rider

as Subisha Gulab (voice)

Movie
2020TV
2020
Kate & Koji

as Dr Ayesha Radwan

TV
2019
Yesterday

as Sheila Malik

Movie
2019TV
2018Movie
2018
Patrick

as Miss Phillips

Movie
2018
To Provide All People

as District Nurse

Movie
2018
The Homestay

as Meera

Movie
2018
The Split

as Goldie

TV
2017
Paddington 2

as Prosecutor

Movie
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games

as Self - Contestant

TV
2017
Our Lives

as Self - Narrator

TV
2017TV
2016TV
2016
Doctor Strange

as Dr. Patel

Movie
2016Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2014Movie
2014
All About TWO

as Self - Panellist

Movie
2014
The Musketeers

as Theresa

TV
2014
The Kumars

as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar

TV
2013
Crackanory

as Self

TV
2013TV
2013
The Job Lot

as Jamina McNulty

TV
2013
Broadchurch

as Judge Sonia Sharma

TV
2012Movie
2012Movie
2011
Silk

as Aisha Wiseman

TV
2010
Little Crackers

as Herself

TV
2010Movie
2009
Desert Flower

as Pushpa Patel

Movie
2009
Mad Sad & Bad

as Rashmi

Movie
2009
Horrible Histories

as Storyteller

TV
2008
Beautiful People

as Aunty Hayley

TV
2007
Jekyll

as Miranda

TV
2007
Would I Lie to You?

as Self - Panellist

TV
2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

as Satvinder’s mother

Movie
2007
Kingdom

as Head Teacher

TV
2006TV
2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2006TV
2006
Scoop

as Joe's Co-Passenger

Movie
2006Movie
2006TV
2005
Nigella

as Self

TV
2005Movie
2005TV
2005
Doctor Who

as Nasreen Chaudhry

TV
2003
QI

as Self

TV
2003
Murder Investigation Team

as DCI Anita Wishart

TV
2002
Anita and Me

as Auntie Shaila

Movie
2002
All About Me

as Rupinder

TV
2002TV
2001
Bedtime

as Ruby

TV
2001
In Deep

as Marta Drusic

TV
2000Movie
2000
Fat Friends

as Aysha Kapoor

TV
2000
Forgive and Forget

as Judith Adams

Movie
2000
The Strangerers

as Volunteer

TV
1999TV
1999
Bad Girls

as Janan Hamad

TV
1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

as Madame Marlene

TV
1998
Girls' Night

as Carmen

Movie
1998
Parkinson

as Self

TV
1997
Ruby

as Self

TV
1997
Keeping Mum

as Tina Beare

TV
1997
Midsomer Murders

as Clara Myerscough

TV
1996Movie
1996
Beautiful Thing

as Miss Chauhan

Movie
1995
It's Not Unusual

as Shushila

Movie
1994
Room 101

as Self

TV
1994Movie
1994
O Mary This London

as Ranting woman

Movie
1994
Memsahib Rita

as Unumma

Movie
1993
GMTV

as Self

TV
1992TV
1992Movie
1992
My Sister-Wife

as Farah Khan

Movie
1991
Soldier Soldier

as Sangita Sharma

TV
1990TV
1988TV
1987Movie
1987TV
1986
Handsworth Songs

as Voice Over

Movie
1984
Majdhar

as Rehana

Movie
1984TV
1983
Natural World

as Narrator

TV
1983TV
1978TV
Lysistrata

as Lysistrata (voice)

Movie
Phony

as Sharla

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJune 27, 1961
Place of BirthWolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Popularity0.7