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.
Scoop
(Joe's Co-Passenger)
Beautiful Thing
(Miss Chauhan)
Girls' Night
(Carmen)
Desert Flower
(Pushpa Patel)
Spin
(Asha)
The Almond and the Seahorse
(Dr. Falmer)
The Children's Party at the Palace
(Mary (The BFG))
A Night in with the Girls
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
(Narrator)
Flavia de Luce
All in Good Time
(Lopa)
Mad Sad & Bad
(Rashmi)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
(Presenter)
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
(Narrator)
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
(Priri)
The Canterville Ghost
(Lucretia Otis (voice))
My Sister-Wife
(Farah Khan)
Forgive and Forget
(Judith Adams)
A Nice Arrangement
(Sita)
It's Not Unusual
(Shushila)
Much Ado About Nothing
(Beatrice)
The Boy in the Dress
(Jaspreet)
The Smeds and the Smoos
(Aunt Smed (voice))
The Homestay
(Meera)
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
(Satvinder’s mother)
Handsworth Songs
(Voice Over)
Absolutely Anything
(Fiona)
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
(Nurse)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
(Nobody (voice))
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
(Dia's Mother)
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
(Zehrunisa Husain)
Anita and Me
(Auntie Shaila)
Patrick
(Miss Phillips)
Paddington 2
(Prosecutor)
Dragon Rider
(Subisha Gulab (voice))
Crossing the Floor
(Reporter)
To Provide All People
(District Nurse)
Nativity Rocks!
(Nina)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
(Rani)
Yesterday
(Sheila Malik)
Memsahib Rita
(Unumma)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
(Cook)
Doctor Strange
(Dr. Patel)
Majdhar
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
(High Priestess)
O Mary This London
(Ranting woman)
Amar Akbar & Tony
(Honey)
The Boy in the Dress
(Jaspreet)
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
(Self)
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Jekyll
(Miranda)
This Morning
(Self)
The Kumars at No. 42
Monkey Trousers
Fat Friends
The One Show
(Self - Guest)
All About Me
(Rupinder)
The Bill
Goodness Gracious Me
Taggart
Who Do You Think You Are?
(Self)
Murder Investigation Team
(DCI Anita Wishart)
8 Out of 10 Cats
(Self)
We Have Been Watching
(Self)
Absolutely Fabulous
(Suzy)
The Strangerers
School's Out
(Self)
The Real McCoy
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
(Self)
Bedtime
(Ruby)
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
(Self)
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
Natural World
(Narrator)
Keeping Mum
(Tina Beare)
GMTV
(Self)
It's Only TV But I Like It
(Self)
Diana's Decades
(Narrator)
When Were We Funniest?
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Doctor Who
(Nasreen Chaudhry)
The Kumars
(Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar)
Horrible Histories
(Storyteller)
Bad Girls
(Janan Hamad)
QI
(Self)
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
(Matron)
The Jury
In Deep
(Marta Drusic)
Kingdom
(Head Teacher)
Beena and Amrit
(Amrit)
Nigella
(Self)
The One Show
(Self)
The Musketeers
(Theresa)
Drop the Dead Donkey
Ruby
(Self)
Original Comedy Shorts
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Walliams & Friend
(Various)
Holding On
An Audience with...
(Self)
The Wheel of Time
(Verin Mathwin)
Midsomer Murders
(Clara Myerscough)
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
(Mrs. Sidhu)
Have I Got News for You
(Herself)
Little Crackers
(Herself)
Roar
(Anu)
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Room 101
(Self)
The Sandman
(Ric the Vic)
Richard Osman's House of Games
(Self - Contestant)
John Bishop: In Conversation With...
(Self)
The Devil's Hour
(Dr Ruby Bennett)
The Devil's Hour
(Dr. Ruby Bennett)
Broadchurch
(Judge Sonia Sharma)
The Split
(Goldie)
Kate & Koji
(Dr Ayesha Radwan)
We Are Lady Parts
(Sister Squire)
Beautiful People
(Aunty Hayley)
Loose Women
(Self)
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
(Madame Marlene)
Soldier Soldier
(Sangita Sharma)
Our Lives
(Self - Narrator)
Hamish Macbeth
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Our Tiny Islands
(Self - Narrator)
Parkinson
(Self)
A Little Princess
(Anna)
Between the Covers
(Self - Interviewed Guest)