Meera Syal
Acting • Born 1961-06-27
Biography
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.
Filmography
137 credits
Scoop
Movie • 2006
Joe's Co-Passenger
Beautiful Thing
Movie • 1996
Miss Chauhan
Girls' Night
Movie • 1998
Carmen
Desert Flower
Movie • 2009
Pushpa Patel
Spin
Movie • 2021
Asha
The Almond and the Seahorse
Movie • 2022
Dr. Falmer
The Children's Party at the Palace
Movie • 2006
Mary (The BFG)
A Night in with the Girls
Movie • 1997
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Flavia
Movie • 2026
All in Good Time
Movie • 2012
Lopa
Mad Sad & Bad
Movie • 2009
Rashmi
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie • 2016
Presenter
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
Movie • 2017
Priri
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 2023
Lucretia Otis (voice)
My Sister-Wife
Movie • 1992
Farah Khan
Forgive and Forget
Movie • 2000
Judith Adams
A Nice Arrangement
Movie • 1994
Sita
It's Not Unusual
Movie • 1995
Shushila
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 2012
Beatrice
The Boy in the Dress
Movie • 2014
Jaspreet
The Smeds and the Smoos
Movie • 2023
Aunt Smed (voice)
The Homestay
Movie • 2018
Meera
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Movie • 2007
Satvinder’s mother
Handsworth Songs
Movie • 1986
Voice Over
Absolutely Anything
Movie • 2015
Fiona
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 2016
Nurse
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 2016
Nobody (voice)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Movie • 2010
Dia's Mother
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Movie • 2015
Zehrunisa Husain
Anita and Me
Movie • 2002
Auntie Shaila
Patrick
Movie • 2018
Miss Phillips
Paddington 2
Movie • 2017
Prosecutor
Dragon Rider
Movie • 2020
Subisha Gulab (voice)
Crossing the Floor
Movie • 1996
Reporter
To Provide All People
Movie • 2018
District Nurse
Nativity Rocks!
Movie • 2018
Nina
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Movie • 1987
Rani
Yesterday
Movie • 2019
Sheila Malik
Memsahib Rita
Movie • 1994
Unumma
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie • 2018
Cook
Doctor Strange
Movie • 2016
Dr. Patel
Majdhar
Movie • 1984
Rehana
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Movie • 2000
High Priestess
O Mary This London
Movie • 1994
Ranting woman
Amar Akbar & Tony
Movie • 2015
Honey
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Movie • 2024
Self / Suzy
Tinsel Town
Movie • 2025
Cassandra
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
Movie • 2005
Joyti De-Laurey
All About TWO
Movie • 2014
Self - Panellist
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
Movie • 2025
Queenie
Gummed Labels
Movie • 1992
Interviewers From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV • 2006
Liz Shannon
Jekyll
TV • 2007
Miranda
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
The Kumars at No. 42
TV • 2001
Monkey Trousers
TV • 2005
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
All About Me
TV • 2002
Rupinder
The Bill
TV • 1984
Goodness Gracious Me
TV • 1996
Taggart
TV • 1983
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
Murder Investigation Team
TV • 2003
DCI Anita Wishart
8 Out of 10 Cats
TV • 2005
Self
We Have Been Watching
TV • 2017
Self
The Strangerers
TV • 2000
Volunteer
School's Out
TV • 2006
Self
The Real McCoy
TV • 1991
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
Bedtime
TV • 2001
Ruby
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
TV • 2002
Self
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
TV • 2004
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Keeping Mum
TV • 1997
Tina Beare
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
It's Only TV But I Like It
TV • 1999
Self
Diana's Decades
TV • 2021
Narrator
When Were We Funniest?
TV • 2008
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
TV • 2005
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Nasreen Chaudhry
The Kumars
TV • 2014
Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
Horrible Histories
TV • 2009
Storyteller
Bad Girls
TV • 1999
Janan Hamad
QI
TV • 2003
Self
The Jury
TV • 2002
In Deep
TV • 2001
Marta Drusic
Kingdom
TV • 2007
Head Teacher
Beena and Amrit
TV • 2021
Amrit
Nigella
TV • 2005
Self
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Theresa
Drop the Dead Donkey
TV • 1990
Barmaid
Ruby
TV • 1997
Self
Original Comedy Shorts
TV • 2014
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
TV • 2015
Walliams & Friend
TV • 2016
Various
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
The Wheel of Time
TV • 2021
Verin Mathwin
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Clara Myerscough
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
TV • 2023
Mrs. Sidhu
Little Crackers
TV • 2010
Herself
Roar
TV • 2022
Anu
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
TV • 2014
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Ric the Vic
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV • 2017
Self - Contestant
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
TV • 2016
Self
The Devil's Hour
TV • 2022
Dr Ruby Bennett
The Devil's Hour
TV • 2022
Dr. Ruby Bennett
Broadchurch
TV • 2013
Judge Sonia Sharma
The Split
TV • 2018
Goldie
Kate & Koji
TV • 2020
Dr Ayesha Radwan
We Are Lady Parts
TV • 2021
Sister Squire
Beautiful People
TV • 2008
Aunty Hayley
Loose Women
TV • 1999
Self
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
TV • 1998
Madame Marlene
Soldier Soldier
TV • 1991
Sangita Sharma
Our Lives
TV • 2017
Self - Narrator
Our Tiny Islands
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Between the Covers
TV • 2020
Self
Uncanny Post Mortem
TV • 2025
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV • 2018
Self - Guest
The Revenge Club
TV • 2025
Rita
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
Fat Friends
TV • 2000
Aysha Kapoor
Crackanory
TV • 2013
Self
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self - Panellist
Silk
TV • 2011
Aisha Wiseman
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
TV • 1985
Mrs. Singh
A Little Princess
TV • 1987
Anna
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
TV • 2017
Herself
Absolutely Fabulous
TV • 1992
Suzy
Psychobitches
TV • 2013
Hera