Meera Syal
Known for Acting · 138 credits
- Born
- 1961-06-27 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (84)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Clara Myerscough
Doctor Who
2005
as Nasreen Chaudhry
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
QI
2003
as Self
The Wheel of Time
2021
as Verin Mathwin
The Sandman
2022
as Ric the Vic
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
as Self
The Bill
1984
Loose Women
1999
as Self
Horrible Histories
2009
as Storyteller
Broadchurch
2013
as Judge Sonia Sharma
Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self - Panellist
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
Bad Girls
1999
as Janan Hamad
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Sangita Sharma
GMTV
1993
as Self
Taggart
1983
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
as Suzy
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
The Musketeers
2014
as Theresa
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
as Self - Contestant
Silk
2011
as Aisha Wiseman
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Room 101
1994
as Self
Roar
2022
as Anu
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Kingdom
2007
as Head Teacher
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990
as Barmaid
The Devil's Hour
2022
as Dr Ruby Bennett / Dr. Ruby Bennett
Between the Covers
2020
as Self
Fat Friends
2000
as Aysha Kapoor
The Split
2018
as Goldie
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Murder Investigation Team
2003
as DCI Anita Wishart
We Are Lady Parts
2021
as Sister Squire
The Jury
2002
Our Lives
2017
as Self - Narrator
Crackanory
2013
as Self
Psychobitches
2013
as Hera
In Deep
2001
as Marta Drusic
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
as Self
Beautiful People
2008
as Aunty Hayley
Back to Life
2019
as Gaia
Ruby
1997
as Self
Little Crackers
2010
as Herself
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999
as Self
Jekyll
2007
as Miranda
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
The Job Lot
2013
as Jamina McNulty
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023
as Mrs. Sidhu
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
as Liz Shannon
Bedtime
2001
as Ruby
The Kumars
2014
as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
We Have Been Watching
2017
as Self
The Revenge Club
2025
as Rita
Nigella
2005
as Self
Goodness Gracious Me
1998
Movies (54)
Doctor Strange
2016
as Dr. Patel
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Nobody (voice)
Paddington 2
2017
as Prosecutor
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
as Cook
Yesterday
2019
as Sheila Malik
Scoop
2006
as Joe's Co-Passenger
Desert Flower
2009
as Pushpa Patel
Absolutely Anything
2015
as Fiona
Dragon Rider
2020
as Subisha Gulab (voice)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Dia's Mother
Beautiful Thing
1996
as Miss Chauhan
The Canterville Ghost
2023
as Lucretia Otis (voice)
Tinsel Town
2025
as Cassandra
Patrick
2018
as Miss Phillips
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
as Mary (The BFG)
Spin
2021
as Asha
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
as Dr. Falmer
Anita and Me
2002
as Auntie Shaila
Girls' Night
1998
as Carmen
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
as Nurse
Crossing the Floor
1996
as Reporter
To Provide All People
2018
as District Nurse
The Boy in the Dress
2014
as Jaspreet
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self / Suzy
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007
as Satvinder’s mother
Nativity Rocks!
2018
as Nina
All in Good Time
2012
as Lopa
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005
as Joyti De-Laurey
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
as Aunt Smed (voice)
Forgive and Forget
2000
as Judith Adams
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
as Zehrunisa Husain
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
as Presenter
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
as Rani
The Homestay
2018
as Meera
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
as High Priestess
O Mary This London
1994
as Ranting woman
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002
as Narrator
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
as Rashmi
It's Not Unusual
1995
as Shushila
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
as Honey
Handsworth Songs
1986
as Voice Over
My Sister-Wife
1992
as Farah Khan
Interviewers From Hell
1989
Memsahib Rita
1994
as Unumma
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
as Queenie
All About TWO
2014
as Self - Panellist
Much Ado About Nothing
2012
as Beatrice
Majdhar
1984
as Rehana
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
as Priri
Gummed Labels
1992
A Nice Arrangement
1994
as Sita
Lysistrata
as Lysistrata (voice)
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
as Narrator
About 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… With 138 credits spanning from 1978 to 2025, Meera Syal has appeared in 54 films and 84 TV shows.
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Most Popular Meera Syal Movies
- Doctor Strange (2016) — as Dr. Patel
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) — as Nobody (voice)
- Paddington 2 (2017) — as Prosecutor
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) — as Cook
- Yesterday (2019) — as Sheila Malik
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