Meera Syal
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meera Syal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Appearances
Scoop
as Joe's Co-Passenger
2006
Beautiful Thing
as Miss Chauhan
1996
Girls' Night
as Carmen
1998
Desert Flower
as Pushpa Patel
2009
Spin
as Asha
2021
The Almond and the Seahorse
as Dr. Falmer
2022
The Children's Party at the Palace
as Mary (The BFG)
2006
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
as Narrator
2002
All in Good Time
as Lopa
2012
Mad Sad & Bad
as Rashmi
2009
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Presenter
2016
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
as Narrator
2015
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
as Priri
2017
The Canterville Ghost
as Lucretia Otis (voice)
2023
My Sister-Wife
as Farah Khan
1992
Forgive and Forget
as Judith Adams
2000
A Nice Arrangement
as Sita
1994
It's Not Unusual
as Shushila
1995
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
2012
TV Appearances
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Liz Shannon
2006
Jekyll
as Miranda
2007
This Morning
as Self
1988
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Monkey Trousers
2005
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
All About Me
as Rupinder
2002
The Bill
1984
Goodness Gracious Me
1998
Taggart
1983
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
Murder Investigation Team
as DCI Anita Wishart
2003