Meera Syal

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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

129

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

Doctor Strange
7.4%

Doctor Strange

Oct 25, 2016

Yesterday
6.7%

Yesterday

Jun 26, 2019

Doctor Who
7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

Paddington 2
7.5%

Paddington 2

Nov 9, 2017

The Wheel of Time
7.7%

The Wheel of Time

Nov 18, 2021

The Sandman
7.9%

The Sandman

Aug 5, 2022

Scoop
6.6%

Scoop

Jul 27, 2006

Absolutely Anything
5.9%

Absolutely Anything

Feb 13, 2015

Broadchurch
7.9%

Broadchurch

Mar 4, 2013

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Acting

Flavia de Luce
Tinsel Town
2025
Uncanny Post Mortem
2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out as Self
2024
Our Tiny Islands as Self - Narrator
2023
The Canterville Ghost as Lucretia Otis (voice)
2023
Mrs Sidhu Investigates as Mrs. Sidhu
2023
The Smeds and the Smoos as Aunt Smed (voice)
2022
The Almond and the Seahorse as Dr. Falmer
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
The Wheel of Time as Verin Mathwin
2021
Beena and Amrit as Amrit
2021
Spin as Asha
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
2020
Kate & Koji as Dr Ayesha Radwan
2019
Yesterday as Sheila Malik
2018
Nativity Rocks! as Nina
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Cook
2018
Patrick as Miss Phillips
2018
To Provide All People as District Nurse
2018
The Homestay as Meera
2018
The Split as Goldie
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
2017
Paddington 2 as Prosecutor
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games as Self - Contestant
2017
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt as Priri
2017
Our Lives as Self - Narrator
2017
We Have Been Watching as Self
2016
Walliams & Friend as Various
2016
Doctor Strange as Dr. Patel
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Presenter
2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with... as Self
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Nurse
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass as Nobody (voice)
2015
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version as Narrator
2015
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Amar Akbar & Tony as Honey
2015
Absolutely Anything as Fiona
2015
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers as Zehrunisa Husain
2014
The Boy in the Dress as Jaspreet
2014
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
The Musketeers as Theresa
2014
The Kumars as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
2013
Broadchurch as Judge Sonia Sharma
2012
Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
2012
All in Good Time as Lopa
2010
Little Crackers as Herself
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Dia's Mother
2009
Desert Flower as Pushpa Patel
2009
Mad Sad & Bad as Rashmi
2009
Horrible Histories as Storyteller
2008
Beautiful People as Aunty Hayley
2008
When Were We Funniest?
2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
2007
Jekyll as Miranda
2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Satvinder’s mother
2007
Kingdom as Head Teacher
2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
The One Show as Self - Guest
2006
The One Show as Self
2006
Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger
2006
The Children's Party at the Palace as Mary (The BFG)
2006
School's Out as Self
2005
Nigella as Self
2005
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million as Joyti De-Laurey
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
2005
Monkey Trousers
2005
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
Doctor Who as Nasreen Chaudhry
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2003
QI as Self
2003
Murder Investigation Team as DCI Anita Wishart
2002
Anita and Me as Auntie Shaila
2002
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India as Narrator
2002
All About Me as Rupinder
2002
The Jury
2002
Johnny Vaughan Tonight as Self
2001
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Bedtime as Ruby
2001
In Deep as Marta Drusic
2000
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime as High Priestess
2000
Fat Friends
2000
Forgive and Forget as Judith Adams
2000
The Strangerers as Volunteer
1999
Loose Women as Self
1999
It's Only TV But I Like It as Self
1999
Bad Girls as Janan Hamad
1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Madame Marlene
1998
Girls' Night as Carmen
1998
Parkinson as Self
1997
Holding On
1997
Ruby as Self
1997
Keeping Mum as Tina Beare
1997
Midsomer Murders as Clara Myerscough
1997
A Night in with the Girls
1996
Crossing the Floor as Reporter
1996
Goodness Gracious Me
1996
Beautiful Thing as Miss Chauhan
1995
Hamish Macbeth as Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
It's Not Unusual as Shushila
1994
Room 101 as Self
1994
A Nice Arrangement as Sita
1994
O Mary This London as Ranting woman
1994
Memsahib Rita as Unumma
1993
GMTV as Self
1992
Absolutely Fabulous as Suzy
1992
My Sister-Wife as Farah Khan
1991
Soldier Soldier as Sangita Sharma
1991
The Real McCoy
1990
Have I Got News for You as Herself
1990
Drop the Dead Donkey as Barmaid
1988
This Morning as Self
1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Rani
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Matron
1987
A Little Princess as Anna
1986
Handsworth Songs as Voice Over
1984
The Bill
1984
Majdhar
1983
Natural World as Narrator
1983
Taggart
1978
An Audience with... as Self

Creator

1996
Goodness Gracious Me as Creator

Production

2002
Anita and Me as Producer

Writing

2017
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt as Writer
2014
Original Comedy Shorts as Writer
2010
Little Crackers as Writer
2002
Anita and Me as Writer
1993
Bhaji on the Beach as Writer
1992
My Sister-Wife as Writer
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