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:
- 91
- 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 |
| Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Lucretia Otis (voice) | 2023-09-22 |
| Series | Mrs Sidhu Investigates | Mrs. Sidhu | 2023-09-18 |
| Movie | The Almond and the Seahorse | Dr. Falmer | 2022-12-16 |
| Series | Diana's Decades | Narrator | 2021-07-08 |
| Series | The Wheel of Time | Verin Mathwin | 2021-11-18 |
| Movie | Spin | Asha | 2021-09-18 |
| 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 | Absolutely Anything | Fiona | 2015-02-13 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Zehrunisa Husain | 2015-03-12 |
| Series | Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version | 2015-11-06 | |
| Movie | Amar Akbar & Tony | Honey | 2015-04-17 |
| Series | The Kumars | Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar | 2014-01-15 |
| Series | Original Comedy Shorts | Unknown | 2014-06-01 |
| Movie | The Boy in the Dress | Jaspreet | 2014-12-26 |
| Series | The Musketeers | Unknown | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | All in Good Time | Lopa | 2012-05-11 |
| Movie | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Dia's Mother | 2010-09-22 |
| Series | Little Crackers | Herself | 2010-12-19 |
| Movie | Desert Flower | Pushpa Patel | 2009-09-24 |
| Movie | Mad Sad & Bad | Rashmi | 2009-07-31 |
| Series | When Were We Funniest? | 2008-02-28 | |
| Series | Beautiful People | Aunty Hayley | 2008-10-02 |
| Series | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Unknown | 2007-09-03 |
| Series | Kingdom | Unknown | 2007-04-22 |
| Series | Jekyll | Miranda | 2007-06-16 |
| Movie | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | Satvinder’s mother | 2007-06-15 |
| Series | School's Out | Unknown | 2006-04-19 |
| 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 | Liz Shannon | 2006-10-03 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Nasreen Chaudhry | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Unknown | 2005-06-03 |
| Series | Monkey Trousers | 2005-05-20 | |
| Series | Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | 2005-05-10 | |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Unknown | 2004-10-12 |
| Series | Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | Unknown | 2004-04-23 |
| Series | QI | Panellist | 2003-09-11 |
| Series | Murder Investigation Team | DCI Anita Wishart | 2003-05-03 |
| Series | Johnny Vaughan Tonight | Unknown | 2002-01-07 |
| Movie | Anita and Me | Auntie Shaila | 2002-11-22 |
| Series | The Jury | Unknown | 2002-02-17 |
| Series | All About Me | 2002-03-08 | |
| Series | In Deep | Unknown | 2001-02-19 |
| Series | Bedtime | 2001-08-28 | |
| Series | The Kumars at No. 42 | 2001-11-12 | |
| Series | Fat Friends | Unknown | 2000-10-12 |
| Series | The Strangerers | Unknown | 2000-02-15 |
| Movie | Forgive and Forget | Judith Adams | 2000-06-12 |
| Series | It's Only TV But I Like It | Unknown | 1999-06-03 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Carmen | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | Holding On | Unknown | 1997-09-08 |
| Series | Midsomer Murders | Clara Myerscough | 1997-03-23 |
| Series | Keeping Mum | Tina Beare | 1997-04-17 |
| Movie | Beautiful Thing | Miss Chauhan | 1996-06-21 |
| Series | Goodness Gracious Me | 1996-07-05 | |
| Movie | Crossing the Floor | Reporter | 1996-10-05 |
| Series | Room 101 | Unknown | 1994-07-04 |
| Movie | Memsahib Rita | Unumma | 1994-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | This Morning | Unknown | 1988-10-03 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Majdhar | 1984-01-01 | |
| Series | The Bill | Unknown | 1984-10-16 |
| Series | Taggart | Unknown | 1983-09-06 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
| Series | An Audience with... | Herself | 1978-01-08 |