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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 27, 1961
Place of Birth
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Meera Syal
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.3
Rita
The Revenge Club
2025
6.2
Cassandra
Tinsel Town
2025
0.0
Queenie
A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
0.0
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
10.0
Self
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
0.0
Self - Narrator
Our Tiny Islands
2024
6.8
Lucretia Otis (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
2023
6.6
Mrs. Sidhu
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023
7.0
Aunt Smed (voice)
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
4.9
Dr. Falmer
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
Credits
The Revenge Club
as Rita
2025
7.3
Tinsel Town
as Cassandra
2025
6.2
A Tupperware of Ashes
as Queenie
2025
0.0
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
0.0
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self
2024
10.0
Our Tiny Islands
as Self - Narrator
2024
0.0
The Canterville Ghost
as Lucretia Otis (voice)
2023
6.8
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
as Mrs. Sidhu
2023
6.6
The Smeds and the Smoos
as Aunt Smed (voice)
2023
7.0
The Almond and the Seahorse
as Dr. Falmer
2022
4.9
The Devil's Hour
as Dr Ruby Bennett
2022
7.4
The Devil's Hour
as Dr. Ruby Bennett
2022
7.4
The Sandman
as Ric the Vic
2022
7.9
Roar
as Anu
2022
5.6
The Wheel of Time
as Verin Mathwin
2021
7.6
Beena and Amrit
as Amrit
2021
0.0
Spin
as Asha
2021
6.9
Diana's Decades
as Narrator
2021
0.0
We Are Lady Parts
as Sister Squire
2021
7.6
Dragon Rider
as Subisha Gulab (voice)
2020
7.1
Between the Covers
as Self
2020
5.5
Kate & Koji
as Dr Ayesha Radwan
2020
6.0
Yesterday
as Sheila Malik
2019
6.7
Nativity Rocks!
as Nina
2018
4.0
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Cook
2018
6.1
Patrick
as Miss Phillips
2018
6.7
🎬
To Provide All People
as District Nurse
2018
6.0
The Homestay
as Meera
2018
5.5
The Split
as Goldie
2018
7.2
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.4
Paddington 2
as Prosecutor
2017
7.5
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant
2017
6.0
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
as Priri
2017
10.0
Our Lives
as Self - Narrator
2017
0.0
🎬
We Have Been Watching
as Self
2017
0.0
Walliams & Friend
as Various
2016
5.2
Doctor Strange
as Dr. Patel
2016
7.4
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Presenter
2016
10.0
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
as Self
2016
7.0
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
2016
8.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Nobody (voice)
2016
6.6
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
0.0
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
as Narrator
2015
0.0
Amar Akbar & Tony
as Honey
2015
6.0
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
as Zehrunisa Husain
2015
6.0
Absolutely Anything
as Fiona
2015
5.9
The Boy in the Dress
as Jaspreet
2014
6.3
🎬
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
6.0
All About TWO
as Self - Panellist
2014
0.0
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
5.7
The Musketeers
as Theresa
2014
7.0
🎬
The Kumars
as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
2014
5.0
Crackanory
as Self
2013
6.8
Broadchurch
as Judge Sonia Sharma
2013
7.9
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
2012
0.0
All in Good Time
as Lopa
2012
6.6
Little Crackers
as Herself
2010
6.8
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Dia's Mother
2010
5.9
Desert Flower
as Pushpa Patel
2009
7.6
Mad Sad & Bad
as Rashmi
2009
4.6
Horrible Histories
as Storyteller
2009
8.0
Beautiful People
as Aunty Hayley
2008
6.8
🎬
When Were We Funniest?
2008
0.0
🎬
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
3.7
Would I Lie to You?
as Self - Panellist
2007
7.8
Jekyll
as Miranda
2007
7.5
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
as Satvinder’s mother
2007
3.8
Kingdom
as Head Teacher
2007
7.1
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Liz Shannon
2006
6.2
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Scoop
as Joe's Co-Passenger
2006
6.6
The Children's Party at the Palace
as Mary (The BFG)
2006
1.8
🎬
School's Out
as Self
2006
0.0
Nigella
as Self
2005
6.0
🎬
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
as Joyti De-Laurey
2005
0.0
8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
2005
7.1
Monkey Trousers
2005
7.3
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
0.0
Doctor Who
as Nasreen Chaudhry
2005
7.6
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2004
8.3
QI
as Self
2003
7.9
Murder Investigation Team
as DCI Anita Wishart
2003
6.3
Anita and Me
as Auntie Shaila
2002
5.9
🎬
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
as Narrator
2002
0.0
🎬
All About Me
as Rupinder
2002
0.0
The Jury
2002
6.8
🎬
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
as Self
2002
5.0
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
5.8
Bedtime
as Ruby
2001
2.0
In Deep
as Marta Drusic
2001
10.0
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
as High Priestess
2000
9.0
Fat Friends
as Aysha Kapoor
2000
7.7
Forgive and Forget
as Judith Adams
2000
5.3
The Strangerers
as Volunteer
2000
6.0
Loose Women
as Self
1999
3.2
🎬
It's Only TV But I Like It
as Self
1999
6.0
Bad Girls
as Janan Hamad
1999
7.5
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Madame Marlene
1998
6.9
🎬
Girls' Night
as Carmen
1998
6.8
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Holding On
1997
8.0
🎬
Ruby
as Self
1997
0.0
Keeping Mum
as Tina Beare
1997
0.0
Midsomer Murders
as Clara Myerscough
1997
7.5
A Night in with the Girls
1997
0.0
Crossing the Floor
as Reporter
1996
6.7
Goodness Gracious Me
1996
6.4
Beautiful Thing
as Miss Chauhan
1996
7.2
It's Not Unusual
as Shushila
1995
6.0
Room 101
as Self
1994
6.3
A Nice Arrangement
as Sita
1994
6.0
O Mary This London
as Ranting woman
1994
0.0
Memsahib Rita
as Unumma
1994
0.0
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
Absolutely Fabulous
as Suzy
1992
7.5
🎬
Gummed Labels
1992
0.0
My Sister-Wife
as Farah Khan
1992
0.0
Soldier Soldier
as Sangita Sharma
1991
6.6
The Real McCoy
1991
6.0
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
7.1
Drop the Dead Donkey
as Barmaid
1990
6.7
This Morning
as Self
1988
5.2
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
as Rani
1987
5.5
A Little Princess
as Anna
1987
7.6
Handsworth Songs
as Voice Over
1986
5.5
Majdhar
as Rehana
1984
7.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.2
Taggart
1983
6.3
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
🎬
Flavia de Luce
N/A
0.0