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Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Birthday: 1961-06-27 | Place of Birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
A Tupperware of Ashes

as    Queenie

2024
2024
Our Tiny Islands

as    Self - Narrator

2023
The Smeds and the Smoos

as    Aunt Smed (voice)

2023
The Canterville Ghost

as    Lucretia Otis (voice)

2023
Mrs Sidhu Investigates

as    Mrs. Sidhu

2022
The Almond and the Seahorse

as    Dr. Falmer

2021
Beena and Amrit

as    Amrit

2021
Spin

as    Asha

2021
Diana's Decades

as    Narrator

2020
Dragon Rider

as    Subisha Gulab (voice)

2019
Yesterday

as    Sheila Malik

2018
Nativity Rocks!

as    Nina

2017
2015
Amar Akbar & Tony

as    Honey

2014
The Boy in the Dress

as    Jaspreet

2014
The Kumars

as    Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar

2012
All in Good Time

as    Lopa