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…
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Acting (140)
Movies (54)
Flavia
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Tinsel Town
2025as Cassandra
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025as Queenie
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024as Self
The Canterville Ghost
2023as Lucretia Otis (voice)
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023as Aunt Smed (voice)
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022as Dr. Falmer
Spin
2021as Asha
Dragon Rider
2020as Subisha Gulab (voice)
Yesterday
2019as Sheila Malik
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018as Cook
The Homestay
2018as Meera
To Provide All People
2018as District Nurse
Patrick
2018as Miss Phillips
Nativity Rocks!
2018as Nina
Paddington 2
2017as Prosecutor
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017as Priri
Doctor Strange
2016as Dr. Patel
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016as Nobody (voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016as Nurse
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016as Presenter
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015as Zehrunisa Husain
Absolutely Anything
2015as Fiona
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015as Narrator
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015as Honey
The Boy in the Dress
2014as Jaspreet
All About TWO
2014as Self - Panellist
Much Ado About Nothing
2012as Beatrice
All in Good Time
2012as Lopa
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010as Dia's Mother
Desert Flower
2009as Pushpa Patel
Mad Sad & Bad
2009as Rashmi
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007as Satvinder’s mother
Scoop
2006as Joe's Co-Passenger
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006as Mary (The BFG)
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005as Joyti De-Laurey
Anita and Me
2002as Auntie Shaila
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002as Narrator
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000as High Priestess
Forgive and Forget
2000as Judith Adams
Girls' Night
1998as Carmen
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Beautiful Thing
1996as Miss Chauhan
Crossing the Floor
1996as Reporter
It's Not Unusual
1995as Shushila
Memsahib Rita
1994as Unumma
A Nice Arrangement
1994as Sita
O Mary This London
1994as Ranting woman
Gummed Labels
1992
My Sister-Wife
1992as Farah Khan
Interviewers From Hell
1989
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987as Rani
Handsworth Songs
1986as Voice Over
Majdhar
1984as Rehana
Television (86)
The Revenge Club
2025as Rita
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
Our Tiny Islands
2024as Self - Narrator
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023as Mrs. Sidhu
The Sandman
2022as Ric the Vic
The Devil's Hour
2022as Dr Ruby Bennett
Roar
2022as Anu
The Wheel of Time
2021as Verin Mathwin
The Wheel of Time
2021as Verin Mathwin
We Are Lady Parts
2021as Sister Squire
Diana's Decades
2021as Narrator
Beena and Amrit
2021as Amrit
Between the Covers
2020as Self
Kate & Koji
2020as Dr Ayesha Radwan
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018as Self - Guest
The Split
2018as Goldie
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017as Self - Contestant
Our Lives
2017as Self - Narrator
We Have Been Watching
2017as Self
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
2017as Herself
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016as Self
Walliams & Friend
2016as Various
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
The Musketeers
2014as Theresa
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014 The Kumars
2014as Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
Broadchurch
2013as Judge Sonia Sharma
Psychobitches
2013as Hera
Crackanory
2013as Self
Silk
2011as Aisha Wiseman
Little Crackers
2010as Herself
Horrible Histories
2009as Storyteller
Beautiful People
2008as Aunty Hayley
When Were We Funniest?
2008
Would I Lie to You?
2007as Self - Panellist
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007as Self
Jekyll
2007as Miranda
Kingdom
2007as Head Teacher
The One Show
2006as Self - Guest
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006as Liz Shannon
School's Out
2006as Self
Doctor Who
2005as Nasreen Chaudhry
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005as Self
Nigella
2005as Self
Monkey Trousers
2005
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004as Self
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2004
QI
2003as Self
Murder Investigation Team
2003as DCI Anita Wishart
The Jury
2002 Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002as Self
All About Me
2002as Rupinder
In Deep
2001as Marta Drusic
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Bedtime
2001as Ruby
Fat Friends
2000as Aysha Kapoor
The Strangerers
2000as Volunteer
Loose Women
1999as Self
Bad Girls
1999as Janan Hamad
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999as Self
Parkinson
1998as Self
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998as Madame Marlene
Midsomer Murders
1997as Clara Myerscough
Ruby
1997as Self
Holding On
1997
Keeping Mum
1997as Tina Beare
Goodness Gracious Me
1996
Hamish Macbeth
1995as Self - Narrator (voice)
Room 101
1994as Self
GMTV
1993as Self
Absolutely Fabulous
1992as Suzy
Soldier Soldier
1991as Sangita Sharma
The Real McCoy
1991
Have I Got News for You
1990as Self
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990as Barmaid
This Morning
1988as Self
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987as Matron
A Little Princess
1987as Anna
A Little Princess
1987as Anna
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985as Mrs. Singh
The Bill
1984
Natural World
1983as Narrator
Taggart
1983
An Audience with...
1978as Self
Crew (9)
Movies (6)
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