Meera Syal
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
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Lysistrata
2026
as Lysistrata (voice)
Tinsel Town
2025
as Cassandra
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
as Queenie
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self / Suzy
Samosa & Sons
2023
as Rai Bahadur
The Canterville Ghost
2023
as Lucretia Otis (voice)
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
as Aunt Smed (voice)
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
as Dr. Falmer
Spin
2021
as Asha
Dragon Rider
2020
as Subisha Gulab (voice)
Yesterday
2019
as Sheila Malik
Nativity Rocks!
2018
as Nina
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
as Cook
Patrick
2018
as Miss Phillips
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To Provide All People
2018
as District Nurse
The Homestay
2018
as Meera
Paddington 2
2017
as Prosecutor
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
as Priri
Doctor Strange
2016
as Dr. Patel
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
as Presenter
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
as Nurse
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Nobody (voice)
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
as Narrator
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
as Honey