Meera Syal
June 27, 1961 (65 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
- 2026 · Lysistrata as Lysistrata (voice)
- 2025 · The Revenge Club as Rita
- 2025 · Tinsel Town as Cassandra
- 2025 · National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes as Queenie
- 2025 · Uncanny Post Mortem as
- 2024 · Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out as Self / Suzy
- 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
- 2019 · Back to Life as Gaia
- 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 · Don't Ask Me Ask Britain as Herself
- 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 · National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers as Zehrunisa Husain
- 2015 · Absolutely Anything as Fiona
- 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
- 2013 · Crackanory as Self
- 2013 · Psychobitches as Hera
- 2013 · The Job Lot as Jamina McNulty
- 2013 · Broadchurch as Judge Sonia Sharma
- 2012 · All in Good Time as Lopa
- 2011 · Silk as Aisha Wiseman
- 2010 · Little Crackers as Herself
- 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 · Would I Lie to You? as Self - Panellist
- 2007 · Jekyll as Miranda
- 2007 · Kingdom as Head Teacher
- 2006 · The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Liz Shannon
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · 8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
- 2005 · Monkey Trousers as
- 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 · The Jury as
- 2001 · The Kumars at No. 42 as
- 2001 · In Deep as Marta Drusic
- 2000 · Fat Friends as Aysha Kapoor
- 1999 · Loose Women as Self
- 1999 · It's Only TV But I Like It as Self
- 1999 · Bad Girls as Janan Hamad
- 1998 · Goodness Gracious Me as
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Ruby as Self
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Clara Myerscough
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 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
- 1985 · The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ as Mrs. Singh
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · Taggart as
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- Future · Phony as Sharla
- 2014 · All About TWO as Self - Panellist
- 2014 · The Kumars as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
- 2012 · Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
- 2010 · You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Dia's Mother
- 2008 · When Were We Funniest? as
- 2007 · Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Satvinder’s mother
- 2006 · The Children's Party at the Palace as Mary (The BFG)
- 2006 · School's Out as Self
- 2005 · The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million as Joyti De-Laurey
- 2005 · Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee as
- 2004 · Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind as
- 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 · Johnny Vaughan Tonight as Self
- 2001 · Bedtime as Ruby
- 2000 · Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime as High Priestess
- 2000 · Forgive and Forget as Judith Adams
- 2000 · The Strangerers as Volunteer
- 1998 · The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Madame Marlene
- 1998 · Girls' Night as Carmen
- 1997 · Keeping Mum as Tina Beare
- 1997 · A Night in with the Girls as
- 1996 · Crossing the Floor as Reporter
- 1996 · Beautiful Thing as Miss Chauhan
- 1995 · It's Not Unusual as Shushila
- 1994 · A Nice Arrangement as Sita
- 1994 · O Mary This London as Ranting woman
- 1994 · Memsahib Rita as Unumma
- 1992 · Gummed Labels as
- 1992 · My Sister-Wife as Farah Khan
- 1991 · The Real McCoy as
- 1989 · Interviewers From Hell as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1987 · Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Rani
- 1987 · A Little Princess as Anna
- 1986 · Handsworth Songs as Voice Over
- 1984 · Majdhar as Rehana