Meera Syal
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.
138 acting credits
Acting · 138
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
2005
Have I Got News for You
1990
The One Show
2006
QI
2003
The Wheel of Time
2021
The Sandman
2022
Natural World
1983
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
The Bill
1984
Loose Women
1999
Horrible Histories
2009
Broadchurch
2013
Would I Lie to You?
2007
An Audience with...
1978
Bad Girls
1999
Soldier Soldier
1991
GMTV
1993
Taggart
1983
Doctor Strange
2016
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
The Musketeers
2014
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Silk
2011
Parkinson
1998
Room 101
1994
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Roar
2022
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Kingdom
2007
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990
The Devil's Hour
2022
Paddington 2
2017
Between the Covers
2020
Fat Friends
2000
The Split
2018
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Murder Investigation Team
2003
We Are Lady Parts
2021
The Jury
2002
Our Lives
2017
Crackanory
2013
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Psychobitches
2013
In Deep
2001
Yesterday
2019
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Beautiful People
2008
Back to Life
2019
Ruby
1997
Little Crackers
2010
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999
Jekyll
2007
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
The Job Lot
2013
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
2023
Scoop
2006
Desert Flower
2009
Absolutely Anything
2015
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
Bedtime
2001
The Kumars
2014
We Have Been Watching
2017
The Revenge Club
2025
Nigella
2005
Dragon Rider
2020
Goodness Gracious Me
1998
Monkey Trousers
2005
This Morning
1988
The Strangerers
2000
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
Beautiful Thing
1996
The Canterville Ghost
2023
A Little Princess
1987
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
The Real McCoy
1991
Tinsel Town
2025
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002
Patrick
2018
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
Keeping Mum
1997
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998
Original Comedy Shorts
2014
Kate & Koji
2020
All About Me
2002
Spin
2021
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
2004
School's Out
2006
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022
Our Tiny Islands
2024
Anita and Me
2002
Phony
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Girls' Night
1998
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Walliams & Friend
2016
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
2017
Crossing the Floor
1996
To Provide All People
2018
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
Uncanny Post Mortem
2025
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007
Nativity Rocks!
2018
When Were We Funniest?
2008
Diana's Decades
2021
All in Good Time
2012
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
2005
The Smeds and the Smoos
2023
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
Forgive and Forget
2000
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Beena and Amrit
2021
The Homestay
2018
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
O Mary This London
1994
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
2005
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
2002
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
It's Not Unusual
1995
A Night in with the Girls
1997
Amar Akbar & Tony
2015
Handsworth Songs
1986
My Sister-Wife
1992
Interviewers From Hell
1989
Memsahib Rita
1994
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
All About TWO
2014
Much Ado About Nothing
2012
Majdhar
1984
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2017
Gummed Labels
1992
A Nice Arrangement
1994
Lysistrata
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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015