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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK, 1961-06-27

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Majdhar		0
2	1986	Handsworth Songs	Voice Over	55
3	1987	Sammy and Rosie Get Laid	Rani	58
4	1992	My Sister-Wife	Farah Khan	0
5	1994	Memsahib Rita	Unumma	0
6	1994	O Mary This London	Ranting woman	0
7	1994	A Nice Arrangement	Sita	60
8	1995	It's Not Unusual	Shushila	60
9	1996	Beautiful Thing	Miss Chauhan	73
10	1996	Crossing the Floor	Reporter	67
11	1997	A Night in with the Girls		0
12	1998	Girls' Night	Carmen	68
13	2000	Forgive and Forget	Judith Adams	55
14	2000	Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime	High Priestess	90
15	2002	Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India	Narrator	0
16	2002	Anita and Me	Auntie Shaila	59
17	2005	The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million	Joyti De-Laurey	0
18	2006	The Children's Party at the Palace	Mary (The BFG)	18
19	2006	Scoop	Joe's Co-Passenger	66
20	2007	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom	Satvinder’s mother	39
21	2009	Mad Sad & Bad	Rashmi	49
22	2009	Desert Flower	Pushpa Patel	75
23	2010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Dia's Mother	59
24	2012	All in Good Time	Lopa	66
25	2012	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	0
26	2014	The Boy in the Dress	Jaspreet	64
27	2015	National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Zehrunisa Husain	0
28	2015	Absolutely Anything	Fiona	59
29	2015	Amar Akbar & Tony	Honey	60
30	2015	Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version	Narrator	0
31	2016	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Nobody (voice)	66
32	2016	Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	80
33	2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe	Presenter	100
34	2016	Doctor Strange	Dr. Patel	74
35	2017	Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt	Priri	100
36	2017	Paddington 2	Prosecutor	75
37	2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Cook	61
38	2018	Nativity Rocks!	Nina	36
39	2021	Spin	Asha	69
40	2022	The Almond and the Seahorse	Dr. Falmer	48
41		Flavia de Luce		0
42	2018	The Homestay	Meera	55
43	2018	To Provide All People	District Nurse	60
44	2018	Patrick	Miss Phillips	67
45	2019	Yesterday	Sheila Malik	67
46	2020	Dragon Rider	Subisha Gulab (voice)	71
47	2023	The Smeds and the Smoos	Aunt Smed (voice)	68
48	2023	The Canterville Ghost	Lucretia Otis (voice)	66
49	2024	Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out	Self	0
50	2025	Tinsel Town		0
51		All About TWO	Self - Panellist	0
52	2025	A Tupperware of Ashes	Queenie	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
2	1983	Taggart		63
3	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
4	1984	The Bill		67
5	1987	A Little Princess	Anna	75
6	1988	This Morning	Self	52
7	1990	Drop the Dead Donkey	Barmaid	70
8	1990	Have I Got News for You	Herself	71
9	1991	The Real McCoy		60
10	1991	Soldier Soldier	Sangita Sharma	66
11	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Suzy	75
12	1993	GMTV	Self	56
13	1994	Room 101	Self	63
14	1996	Goodness Gracious Me		64
15	1997	Midsomer Murders	Clara Myerscough	75
16	1997	Keeping Mum	Tina Beare	0
17	1997	Ruby	Self	0
18	1997	Holding On		80
19	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
20	1998	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Madame Marlene	69
21	1999	Bad Girls	Janan Hamad	76
22	1999	It's Only TV But I Like It	Self	60
23	1999	Loose Women	Self	32
24	2000	The Strangerers	Volunteer	60
25	2000	Fat Friends		77
26	2001	In Deep	Marta Drusic	100
27	2001	Bedtime	Ruby	20
28	2001	The Kumars at No. 42		58
29	2002	Johnny Vaughan Tonight	Self	50
30	2002	The Jury		64
31	2002	All About Me	Rupinder	0
32	2003	Murder Investigation Team	DCI Anita Wishart	55
33	2003	QI	Self	79
34	2004	Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind		83
35	2004	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	67
36	2005	Doctor Who	Nasreen Chaudhry	76
37	2005	Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee		0
38	2005	Monkey Trousers		70
39	2005	8 Out of 10 Cats	Self	71
40	2005	Nigella	Self	60
41	2006	School's Out	Self	0
42	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
43	2006	The One Show	Self	45
44	2006	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard		62
45	2007	Kingdom	Head Teacher	71
46	2007	Jekyll	Miranda	76
47	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
48	2008	When Were We Funniest?		0
49	2008	Beautiful People	Aunty Hayley	70
50	2009	Horrible Histories	Storyteller	80
51	2010	Little Crackers	Herself	68
52	2013	Broadchurch	Judge Sonia Sharma	79
53	2014	The Kumars	Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar	50
54	2014	The Musketeers	Theresa	70
55	2014	Duck Quacks Don't Echo		57
56	2014	Original Comedy Shorts		60
57	2015	Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version		0
58	2016	John Bishop: In Conversation with...	Self	70
59	2016	Walliams & Friend	Various	52
60	2017	We Have Been Watching	Self	0
61	2017	Our Lives	Self - Narrator	0
62	2017	Richard Osman's House of Games	Self - Contestant	60
63	2018	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer	Self - Guest	75
64	2018	The Split	Goldie	73
65	2020	Kate & Koji	Dr Ayesha Radwan	59
66	2020	Between the Covers	Self	55
67	2021	We Are Lady Parts	Sister Squire	76
68	2021	Diana's Decades	Narrator	0
69	2021	Beena and Amrit	Amrit	0
70	2021	The Wheel of Time	Verin Mathwin	77
71	2022	Roar	Anu	58
72	2022	The Sandman	Ric the Vic	79
73	2022	The Devil's Hour	Dr Ruby Bennett	73
74	2022	The Devil's Hour	Dr. Ruby Bennett	73
75	2023	Mrs Sidhu Investigates	Mrs. Sidhu	68
76	2024	Our Tiny Islands	Self - Narrator	0
77	2025	Uncanny Post Mortem		0
78		The Revenge Club	Rita	0