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 from the Wikipedia article Meera Syal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jun 27, 1961 In Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 82
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Flavia de Luce
- Latest Project:
- Movie Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out 2024-10-17
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Flavia de Luce | 2026 | |
| Movie | Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out | Self | 2024-10-17 |
| Movie | The Smeds and the Smoos | Aunt Smed (voice) | 2023-02-24 |
| Series | Mrs Sidhu Investigates | Mrs. Sidhu | 2023-09-18 |
| Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Lucretia Otis (voice) | 2023-09-22 |
| Movie | The Almond and the Seahorse | Dr. Falmer | 2022-12-16 |
| Movie | Spin | Asha | 2021-09-18 |
| Series | Diana's Decades | Narrator | 2021-07-08 |
| Movie | Dragon Rider | Subisha Gulab (voice) | 2020-10-13 |
| Movie | Yesterday | Sheila Malik | 2019-06-26 |
| Movie | To Provide All People | District Nurse | 2018-06-28 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Cook | 2018-10-26 |
| Movie | Patrick | Miss Phillips | 2018-06-29 |
| Movie | Nativity Rocks! | Nina | 2018-11-23 |
| Series | We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017-01-04 |
| Movie | Paddington 2 | Prosecutor | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Nobody (voice) | 2016-05-25 |
| Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | 2016-07-07 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange | Dr. Patel | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe | Presenter | 2016-09-11 |
| Series | Walliams & Friend | Various | 2016-11-28 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Zehrunisa Husain | 2015-01-01 |
| Series | Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version | 2015-11-06 | |
| Movie | Amar Akbar & Tony | Honey | 2015-04-17 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Fiona | 2015-02-13 |
| Series | The Kumars | Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar | 2014-01-15 |
| Series | The Musketeers | Unknown | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | The Boy in the Dress | Jaspreet | 2014-12-26 |
| Movie | All in Good Time | Lopa | 2012-05-11 |
| Movie | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Dia's Mother | 2010-09-22 |
| Movie | Mad Sad & Bad | Rashmi | 2009-07-31 |
| Movie | Desert Flower | Pushpa Patel | 2009-09-24 |
| Series | When Were We Funniest? | 2008-02-28 | |
| Series | Beautiful People | Aunty Hayley | 2008-10-02 |
| Series | Jekyll | Miranda | 2007-06-16 |
| Series | Kingdom | Unknown | 2007-04-22 |
| Movie | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | Satvinder’s mother | 2007-06-15 |
| Movie | The Children's Party at the Palace | Mary (The BFG) | 2006-06-25 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Scoop | Joe's Co-Passenger | 2006-07-27 |
| Series | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | 2006-10-03 | |
| Series | Doctor Who | Nasreen Chaudhry | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Unknown | 2005-06-03 |
| Series | Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | 2005-05-10 | |
| Series | Monkey Trousers | 2005-05-20 | |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Unknown | 2004-10-12 |
| Series | Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | Unknown | 2004-04-23 |
| Series | Murder Investigation Team | DCI Anita Wishart | 2003-05-03 |
| Series | QI | Panellist | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Anita and Me | Auntie Shaila | 2002-11-22 |
| Series | The Jury | Unknown | 2002-02-17 |
| Series | All About Me | 2002-03-08 | |
| Series | Horrible Histories | Unknown | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | The Kumars at No. 42 | 2001-11-12 | |
| Series | Bedtime | 2001-08-28 | |
| Series | In Deep | Unknown | 2001-02-19 |
| Series | Fat Friends | Unknown | 2000-10-12 |
| Movie | Forgive and Forget | Judith Adams | 2000-06-12 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Carmen | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | Keeping Mum | Tina Beare | 1997-04-17 |
| Series | Midsomer Murders | Clara Myerscough | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | Beautiful Thing | Miss Chauhan | 1996-06-21 |
| Movie | Crossing the Floor | Reporter | 1996-10-05 |
| Series | Goodness Gracious Me | 1996-07-05 | |
| Movie | It's Not Unusual | Shushila | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Memsahib Rita | Unumma | 1994-01-01 |
| Series | Room 101 | Unknown | 1994-07-04 |
| Movie | A Nice Arrangement | Sita | 1994-06-11 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Series | Absolutely Fabulous | Unknown | 1992-11-12 |
| Movie | My Sister-Wife | Farah Khan | 1992-02-23 |
| Series | The Real McCoy | 1991-05-10 | |
| Series | Have I Got News for You | Herself | 1990-09-28 |
| Series | Drop the Dead Donkey | Unknown | 1990-08-09 |
| Movie | Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Rani | 1987-10-30 |
| Series | A Little Princess | Anna | 1987-01-18 |
| Series | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Unknown | 1987-08-02 |
| Movie | Handsworth Songs | Voice Over | 1986-05-08 |
| Series | The Bill | Unknown | 1984-10-16 |
| Movie | Majdhar | 1984-01-01 | |
| Series | Taggart | Unknown | 1983-09-06 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |