
Meera Syal
Actress
Born: June 27, 1961 (64 years old)
Place of birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography (70)
- Desert Flower (2009, ★ 7.6)
- Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016, ★ 8)
- Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind (2004, ★ 8.2)
- Doctor Who (2005, ★ 7.6)
- Horrible Histories (2009, ★ 7.9)
- Bad Girls (1999, ★ 7.6)
- The Wheel of Time (2021, ★ 7.6)
- The Sandman (2022, ★ 7.9)
- Broadchurch (2013, ★ 7.9)
- We Are Lady Parts (2021, ★ 7.6)
- Fat Friends (2000, ★ 7.7)
- Would I Lie to You? (2007, ★ 7.8)
- A Little Princess (1987, ★ 7.6)
- Scoop (2006, ★ 6.6)
- Beautiful Thing (1996, ★ 7.3)
- Girls' Night (1998, ★ 6.8)
- Spin (2021, ★ 6.9)
- All in Good Time (2012, ★ 6.6)
- The Canterville Ghost (2023, ★ 6.7)
- The Smeds and the Smoos (2023, ★ 6.9)
- Paddington 2 (2017, ★ 7.5)
- Dragon Rider (2020, ★ 7)
- Doctor Strange (2016, ★ 7.4)
- Jekyll (2007, ★ 7.5)
- Natural World (1983, ★ 7.4)
- Kingdom (2007, ★ 7.1)
- The Musketeers (2014, ★ 7)
- Drop the Dead Donkey (1990, ★ 6.9)
- Midsomer Murders (1997, ★ 7.5)
- The Devil's Hour (2022, ★ 7.4)