Meera Syal
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.
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- Born:
- Jun 27, 1961 In Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 90
- First Appeared:
- In the series An Audience with... 1978-01-08
- Latest Project:
- Movie Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out 2024-10-17
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out | Self | 2024-10-17 |
| Series | Mrs Sidhu Investigates | Mrs. Sidhu | 2023-09-18 |
| Movie | The Smeds and the Smoos | Aunt Smed (voice) | 2023-02-24 |
| Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Lucretia Otis (voice) | 2023-09-22 |
| Movie | Spin | Asha | 2021-09-18 |
| Movie | Dragon Rider | Subisha Gulab (voice) | 2020-10-13 |
| Movie | Yesterday | Sheila Malik | 2019-06-26 |
| Movie | To Provide All People | District Nurse | 2018-06-28 |
| Movie | Patrick | Miss Phillips | 2018-06-29 |
| Movie | Nativity Rocks! | Nina | 2018-11-23 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Cook | 2018-10-26 |
| Series | We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017-01-04 |
| Movie | Paddington 2 | Prosecutor | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Nobody (voice) | 2016-05-25 |
| Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | 2016-07-07 |
| Series | Walliams & Friend | Various | 2016-11-28 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe | Presenter | 2016-09-11 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange | Dr. Patel | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | Amar Akbar & Tony | Honey | 2015-04-17 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Zehrunisa Husain | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Fiona | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version | 2015-11-06 | |
| Series | The Kumars | Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar | 2014-01-15 |
| Series | Original Comedy Shorts | Unknown | 2014-06-01 |
| Series | The Musketeers | Unknown | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | The Boy in the Dress | Jaspreet | 2014-12-26 |
| Movie | The Boy in the Dress | Jaspreet | 2014-12-26 |
| Movie | All in Good Time | Lopa | 2012-05-11 |
| Movie | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Dia's Mother | 2010-09-22 |
| Movie | Desert Flower | Pushpa Patel | 2009-09-24 |
| Movie | Mad Sad & Bad | Rashmi | 2009-07-31 |
| Series | When Were We Funniest? | 2008-02-28 | |
| Series | Beautiful People | Aunty Hayley | 2008-10-02 |
| Series | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Unknown | 2007-09-03 |
| Series | Kingdom | Unknown | 2007-04-22 |
| Movie | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | Satvinder’s mother | 2007-06-15 |
| Series | Jekyll | Miranda | 2007-06-16 |
| Series | School's Out | Unknown | 2006-04-19 |
| Movie | The Children's Party at the Palace | Mary (The BFG) | 2006-06-25 |
| Series | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | 2006-10-03 | |
| Movie | Scoop | Joe's Co-Passenger | 2006-07-27 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Nasreen Chaudhry | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | 2005-05-10 | |
| Series | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Unknown | 2005-06-03 |
| Series | Monkey Trousers | 2005-05-20 | |
| Series | Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | Unknown | 2004-04-23 |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Unknown | 2004-10-12 |
| Series | Murder Investigation Team | DCI Anita Wishart | 2003-05-03 |
| Series | QI | Panellist | 2003-09-11 |
| Series | Johnny Vaughan Tonight | Unknown | 2002-01-07 |
| Series | All About Me | 2002-03-08 | |
| Series | The Jury | Unknown | 2002-02-17 |
| Movie | Anita and Me | Auntie Shaila | 2002-11-22 |
| Movie | Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India | Narrator | 2002-07-25 |
| Series | In Deep | Unknown | 2001-02-19 |
| Series | The Kumars at No. 42 | 2001-11-12 | |
| Series | Bedtime | 2001-08-28 | |
| Series | The Strangerers | Unknown | 2000-02-15 |
| Series | Fat Friends | Unknown | 2000-10-12 |
| Movie | Forgive and Forget | Judith Adams | 2000-06-12 |
| Series | It's Only TV But I Like It | Unknown | 1999-06-03 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Carmen | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | Midsomer Murders | Clara Myerscough | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | A Night in with the Girls | 1997-03-15 | |
| Series | Keeping Mum | Tina Beare | 1997-04-17 |
| Series | Holding On | Unknown | 1997-09-08 |
| Movie | Beautiful Thing | Miss Chauhan | 1996-06-21 |
| Series | Goodness Gracious Me | 1996-07-05 | |
| Movie | Crossing the Floor | Reporter | 1996-10-05 |
| Movie | Memsahib Rita | Unumma | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | O Mary This London | Ranting woman | 1994-03-30 |
| Series | Room 101 | Unknown | 1994-07-04 |
| Movie | A Nice Arrangement | Sita | 1994-06-11 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | My Sister-Wife | Farah Khan | 1992-02-23 |
| Series | Absolutely Fabulous | Unknown | 1992-11-12 |
| Series | The Real McCoy | 1991-05-10 | |
| Series | Have I Got News for You | Herself | 1990-09-28 |
| Series | Drop the Dead Donkey | Unknown | 1990-08-09 |
| Series | This Morning | Unknown | 1988-10-03 |
| Series | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Unknown | 1987-08-02 |
| Series | A Little Princess | Anna | 1987-01-18 |
| Movie | Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Rani | 1987-10-30 |
| Movie | Handsworth Songs | Voice Over | 1986-05-08 |
| Movie | Majdhar | 1984-01-01 | |
| Series | The Bill | Unknown | 1984-10-16 |
| Series | Taggart | Unknown | 1983-09-06 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
| Series | An Audience with... | Herself | 1978-01-08 |