Meera Syal
June 27, 1961 (63 years old) in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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
Credits
- 2025 · Tinsel Town as
- 2025 · A Tupperware of Ashes as Queenie
- 2025 · Uncanny Post Mortem as
- 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
- 2015 · Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version as Narrator
- 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 as
- 2014 · Duck Quacks Don't Echo as
- 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? as
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 2005 · Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee as
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Nasreen Chaudhry
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind as
- 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 as
- 2002 · Johnny Vaughan Tonight as Self
- 2001 · The Kumars at No. 42 as
- 2001 · Bedtime as Ruby
- 2001 · In Deep as Marta Drusic
- 2000 · Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime as High Priestess
- 2000 · Fat Friends as
- 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 as
- 1997 · Ruby as Self
- 1997 · Keeping Mum as Tina Beare
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Clara Myerscough
- Future · Flavia de Luce as
- 1997 · A Night in with the Girls as
- 1996 · Crossing the Floor as Reporter
- 1996 · Goodness Gracious Me as
- 1996 · Beautiful Thing as Miss Chauhan
- 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
- 1992 · My Sister-Wife as Farah Khan
- 1986 · Handsworth Songs as Voice Over
- Future · The Revenge Club as Rita
- Future · All About TWO as Self - Panellist
- 1994 · Memsahib Rita as Unumma
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Suzy
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Sangita Sharma
- 1991 · The Real McCoy as
- 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 · A Little Princess as Anna
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Majdhar as
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · Taggart as
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self