Meera Syal
June 27, 1961 (64 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 Cassandra
- 2024 · Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out as Self
- 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 · Spin as Asha
- 2021 · We Are Lady Parts as Sister Squire
- 2020 · Dragon Rider as Subisha Gulab (voice)
- 2020 · Between the Covers as Self
- 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 · 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
- 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 · Amar Akbar & Tony as Honey
- 2015 · National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers as Zehrunisa Husain
- 2015 · Absolutely Anything as Fiona
- 2014 · The Boy in the Dress as Jaspreet
- 2014 · All About TWO as Self - Panellist
- 2014 · Duck Quacks Don't Echo as
- 2014 · The Musketeers as Theresa
- 2013 · Crackanory as Self
- 2013 · Broadchurch as Judge Sonia Sharma
- 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
- 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 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)
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · 8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Nasreen Chaudhry
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 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 · The Jury as
- 2001 · The Kumars at No. 42 as
- 2001 · In Deep as Marta Drusic
- 2000 · Fat Friends as Aysha Kapoor
- 2000 · Forgive and Forget as Judith Adams
- 1999 · Loose Women as Self
- 1999 · It's Only TV But I Like It as Self
- 1999 · Bad Girls as Janan Hamad
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Ruby as Self
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Clara Myerscough
- 1997 · A Night in with the Girls as
- 1996 · Crossing the Floor as Reporter
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1994 · A Nice Arrangement as Sita
- 1994 · O Mary This London as Ranting woman
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Suzy
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Sangita Sharma
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1990 · Drop the Dead Donkey as Barmaid
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Majdhar as
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · Taggart as
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- Future · Flavia de Luce as
- 2002 · Johnny Vaughan Tonight as Self
- 2000 · Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime as High Priestess
- 1998 · The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Madame Marlene
- 1997 · Holding On as
- 1996 · Beautiful Thing as Miss Chauhan
- 1994 · Memsahib Rita as Unumma
- 1992 · Gummed Labels as
- 1991 · The Real McCoy as
- 1987 · Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Rani
- Future · The Revenge Club as Rita
- 2025 · A Tupperware of Ashes as Queenie
- 2025 · Uncanny Post Mortem as
- 2024 · Our Tiny Islands as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · Beena and Amrit as Amrit
- 2021 · Diana's Decades as Narrator
- 2020 · Kate & Koji as Dr Ayesha Radwan
- 2018 · To Provide All People as District Nurse
- 2017 · Our Lives as Self - Narrator
- 2017 · We Have Been Watching as Self
- 2016 · Walliams & Friend as Various
- 2015 · Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version as Narrator
- 2015 · Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version as
- 2014 · Original Comedy Shorts as
- 2014 · The Kumars as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
- 2012 · Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
- 2008 · When Were We Funniest? as
- 2006 · The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Liz Shannon
- 2006 · School's Out as Self
- 2005 · The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million as Joyti De-Laurey
- 2005 · Monkey Trousers as
- 2005 · Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee as
- 2004 · Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind as
- 2002 · All About Me as Rupinder
- 2001 · Bedtime as Ruby
- 2000 · The Strangerers as Volunteer
- 1998 · Girls' Night as Carmen
- 1997 · Keeping Mum as Tina Beare
- 1996 · Goodness Gracious Me as
- 1995 · It's Not Unusual as Shushila
- 1992 · My Sister-Wife as Farah Khan
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1987 · A Little Princess as Anna
- 1986 · Handsworth Songs as Voice Over