
Zita Sattar
Zita Sattar (born 1975) is an English television, theatre, and film actress from Birmingham. Sattar is of mixed descent, her mother being British and her father Pakistani. At the age of eleven, as a young amateur actress, Sattar was one of the founding members of Birmingham's Central Junior Television Workshop. She then attended the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance in London. Sattar is best known for playing Anna Paul in Casualty from 2001 to 2003. She has also had roles in The Bill, Gimme Gimme Gimme, According to Bex, Dalziel and Pascoe, Doctors, and Flowers. Her theatre roles include: Top Girls, Clubbed Out, Let's Go to the Fair, Hansel and Gretel, One Night, D'yer Eat with your Fingers, and Romeo and Juliet. She also played the role of Meenah Khan in the original cast of East is East by Ayub Khan-Din. It was produced by the Tamasha Theatre Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1996. Although she did not reprise the role in the film version of the play (1999), she did appear as new character Neelam Haqq in the sequel West Is West (2010).[2] She has starred in the following low-budget films: The Final Curtain, Esther Kahn, Janice Beard 45wpm, and Large.
Known For
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- 2024 · Until I Kill You as DC Ruth Croft
- 2023 · Phoenix Rise as Miss Abel
- 2021 · The Cleaner as Ruth Edwards
- 2020 · I Hate Suzie as Nadia
- 2019 · Responsible Child as Sam Delaney
- 2019 · Years and Years as Yvonne Bukhari
- 2017 · Creeped Out as Hannah
- 2017 · The Worst Witch as Mrs Maria Tapioca
- 2016 · Flowers as Barbara
- 2015 · Derek Special as Cath
- 2013 · Another Me as Mira
- 2013 · Derek as Cath
- 2013 · Father Brown as Mavis Jug
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Josie Smith
- 2010 · West Is West as
- 2009 · Mad Sad & Bad as Kirsty
- 2005 · According to Bex as
- 2001 · Large as Kylie
- 1999 · Janice Beard 45 WPM as Jane
- 1998 · Heartburn Hotel as
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1996 · The Bill: Target as W.D.C. Watson
- 1995 · Backup as
- 1986 · Casualty as Anna Paul