Meera Syal
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Nobody (voice) 2016
Yesterday
as Sheila Malik 2019
Paddington 2
as Prosecutor 2017
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Cook 2018
Scoop
as Joe's Co-Passenger 2006
Absolutely Anything
as Fiona 2015
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Dia's Mother 2010
Desert Flower
as Pushpa Patel 2009
Beautiful Thing
as Miss Chauhan 1996
Patrick
as Miss Phillips 2018
Dragon Rider
as Subisha Gulab (voice) 2020
Spin
as Asha 2021
The Canterville Ghost
as Lucretia Otis (voice) 2023
The Boy in the Dress
as Jaspreet 2014
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
as Satvinder’s mother 2007
Tinsel Town
as Cassandra 2025