Meera Syal
Acting
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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As actor 172
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
2005
Holby City
1999
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Have I Got News for You
1990
Loose Women
1999
QI
2003
The Sandman
2022
GMTV
1993
The One Show
2006
The Wheel of Time
2021
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
Natural World
1983
The Bill
1984
Parkinson
1998
Screen Two
1985
New Tricks
2004
Broadchurch
2013
Would I Lie to You?
2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Doctor Strange
2016
Horrible Histories
2009
The Musketeers
2014
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
An Audience with...
1978
Silk
2011
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Soldier Soldier
1991
Boon
1986
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Taggart
1983
Bad Girls
1999
Parkinson
2004
Room 101
1994
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
The Devil's Hour
2022
Riviera
2017
Roar
2022
Jekyll
2007
Paddington 2
2017
Kingdom
2007
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990
Murder Investigation Team
2003
The Split
2018
The Jury
2002
Ruby
1997
The Brink
2015
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Yesterday
2019
Family Tree
2013
Our Lives
2017
Absolutely Anything
2015
Hunted
2012
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002
Code 404
2020
Between the Covers
2020
Little Crackers
2010
Dragon Rider
2020
Desert Flower
2009
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Band of Gold
1995
Fat Friends
2000
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999
The Job Lot
2013
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
The F Word
2005
Scoop
2006
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
This Morning
1988
Kinsey
1991
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
Crackanory
2013
Monkey Trousers
2005
Grandpa in My Pocket
2009
Beautiful People
2008
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998
In Deep
2001
Nigella
2005
Back to Life
2019
We Are Lady Parts
2021
A Little Princess
1987
Kate & Koji
2020
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023
Linda Green
2001
Tinga Tinga Tales
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
Bedtime
2001
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2004
Psychobitches
2013
Black Silk
1985
Goodness Gracious Me
1998
Love Matters
2013
The Canterville Ghost
2023
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994
Patrick
2018
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
Beautiful Thing
1996
Spin
2021
The Real McCoy
1991
The Kumars
2014
The Revenge Club
2025
Girls' Night
1998
Handsworth Songs
1986
The Strangerers
2000
Double Income, No Kids Yet
2001
Holding On
1997
Tinsel Town
2025
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
School's Out
2006
Uncle Max
2006
The Homestay
2018
Keeping Mum
1997
Minder
2009
Walliams & Friend
2016
To Have and to Hold
1986
Forgive and Forget
2000
Treasure
2001
We Have Been Watching
2017
All About Me
2002
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
2017
When Were We Funniest?
2008
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
Samosa & Sons
2023
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Degrees of Error
1995
Comedians: Home Alone
2020
Wavelength
1997
Sean's Show
1992
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
Anita and Me
2002
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
To Provide All People
2018
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007
Lysistrata
2026
Nativity Rocks!
2018
Gummed Labels
1992
Diana's Decades
2021
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
King of Bollywood
2004
All in Good Time
2012
Crossing the Floor
1996
Interviewers From Hell
1989
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
Flight
1997
Phony
Our Tiny Islands
2024
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
Majdhar
1984
My Sister-Wife
1992
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
A Nice Arrangement
1994
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
O Mary This London
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
2012
Sixth Happiness
1997
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
Beena and Amrit
2021
Memsahib Rita
1994
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005
All About TWO
2014
It's Not Unusual
1995
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
