Meera Syal
Acting
Born June 27, 1961 · 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.
Films (54)
Flavia
2026
Tinsel Town
2025
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
The Canterville Ghost
2023
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
Spin
2021
Dragon Rider
2020
Yesterday
2019
Nativity Rocks!
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Patrick
2018
To Provide All People
2018
The Homestay
2018
Paddington 2
2017
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
Doctor Strange
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
Absolutely Anything
2015
The Boy in the Dress
2014
All About TWO
2014
Much Ado About Nothing
2012
All in Good Time
2012
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
Desert Flower
2009
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007
Scoop
2006
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005
Anita and Me
2002
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Forgive and Forget
2000
Girls' Night
1998
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Crossing the Floor
1996
Beautiful Thing
1996
It's Not Unusual
1995
A Nice Arrangement
1994
O Mary This London
1994
Memsahib Rita
1994
Gummed Labels
1992
My Sister-Wife
1992
Interviewers From Hell
1989
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Handsworth Songs
1986
Majdhar
1984