Meera Syal
Department: Acting
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
Scoop
2006
Beautiful Thing
1996
Girls' Night
1998
Desert Flower
2009
Spin
2021
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002
All in Good Time
2012
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
The Canterville Ghost
2023
My Sister-Wife
1992
Forgive and Forget
2000
A Nice Arrangement
1994
It's Not Unusual
1995
Much Ado About Nothing
2012
The Boy in the Dress
2014
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
The Homestay
2018
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007
Handsworth Songs
1986
Absolutely Anything
2015
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
Anita and Me
2002
Patrick
2018
Paddington 2
2017
Dragon Rider
2020
Crossing the Floor
1996
To Provide All People
2018
Nativity Rocks!
2018
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Yesterday
2019
Memsahib Rita
1994
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Doctor Strange
2016
Majdhar
1984
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
O Mary This London
1994
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
Tinsel Town
2025
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005
All About TWO
2014
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
Gummed Labels
1992
Interviewers From Hell
1989
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
Jekyll
2007
This Morning
1988
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Monkey Trousers
2005
The One Show
2006
All About Me
2002
The Bill
1984
Goodness Gracious Me
1996
Taggart
1983
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Murder Investigation Team
2003
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
We Have Been Watching
2017
The Strangerers
2000
School's Out
2006
The Real McCoy
1991
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Bedtime
2001
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2004
Natural World
1983
Keeping Mum
1997
GMTV
1993
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999
Diana's Decades
2021
When Were We Funniest?
2008
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
Doctor Who
2005
The Kumars
2014
Horrible Histories
2009
Bad Girls
1999
QI
2003
The Jury
2002
Kingdom
2007
In Deep
2001
Beena and Amrit
2021
Nigella
2005
The One Show
2006
The Musketeers
2014
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990
Ruby
1997
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Walliams & Friend
2016
An Audience with...
1978
The Wheel of Time
2021
Midsomer Murders
1997
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023
Little Crackers
2010
Roar
2022
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Room 101
1994
The Sandman
2022
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
The Devil's Hour
2022
The Devil's Hour
2022
Broadchurch
2013
The Split
2018
Kate & Koji
2020
We Are Lady Parts
2021
Beautiful People
2008
Loose Women
1999
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998
Soldier Soldier
1991
Our Lives
2017
Our Tiny Islands
2024
Parkinson
1998
Between the Covers
2020
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
The Revenge Club
2025
Have I Got News for You
1990
Fat Friends
2000
Crackanory
2013
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Silk
2011
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
A Little Princess
1987
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
2017
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Psychobitches
2013