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

• 2026Lysistrata — Lysistrata (voice)
• Phony — Sharla
• 2025National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes — Queenie
• The Revenge Club — Rita Eggleston
• 2025Tinsel Town — Cassandra
• Mrs Sidhu Investigates — Mrs. Sidhu
• 2023Samosa & Sons — Rai Bahadur
• 2023The Canterville Ghost — Lucretia Otis (voice)
• 2023The Smeds and the Smoos — Aunt Smed (voice)
• Roar — Anu
• 2022The Almond and the Seahorse — Dr. Falmer
• The Devil's Hour — Dr Ruby Bennett
• The Sandman — Ric the Vic
• Beena and Amrit — Amrit
• Diana's Decades — Narrator
• 2021Spin — Asha
• The Wheel of Time — Verin Mathwin
• We Are Lady Parts — Sister Squire
• Code 404 — Elizabeth Churchland
• Comedians: Home Alone — Reena
• 2020Dragon Rider — Subisha Gulab (voice)
• Kate & Koji — Dr Ayesha Radwan
• Back to Life — Gaia
• 2019Yesterday — Sheila Malik
• 2018Nativity Rocks! — Nina
• 2018Patrick — Miss Phillips
• 2018The Homestay — Meera
• 2018The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — Cook
• The Split — Goldie
• 2018To Provide All People — District Nurse
• 2017Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt — Priri, Writer
• 2017Paddington 2 — Prosecutor
• Riviera — Sonya Roche
• 2016A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Presenter
• 2016Alice Through the Looking Glass — Nobody (voice)
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet — Nurse
• 2016Doctor Strange — Dr. Patel
• Walliams & Friend — Various
• 2015Absolutely Anything — Fiona
• 2015Amar Akbar & Tony — Honey
• 2015Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version — Narrator
• Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version — Narrator
• 2015National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Zehrunisa Husain
• The Brink — Naeema
• Original Comedy Shorts — Writer
• 2014The Boy in the Dress — Jaspreet
• The Kumars — Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
• The Musketeers — Theresa
• Broadchurch — Judge Sonia Sharma
• Family Tree — Chitra
• Love Matters — Kuldip
• Psychobitches — Hera
• The Job Lot — Jamina McNulty
• 2012All in Good Time — Lopa
• Hunted — Fatima Zahir
• 2012Much Ado About Nothing — Beatrice
• Silk — Aisha Wiseman
• Little Crackers — Herself, Writer
• Tinga Tinga Tales — Owl (voice)
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Dia's Mother
• 2009Desert Flower — Pushpa Patel
• Grandpa in My Pocket — Mrs Pointy Pencil
• Horrible Histories — Storyteller
• 2009Mad Sad & Bad — Rashmi
• Minder — Jess Robinson
• Beautiful People — Aunty Hayley
• Jekyll — Miranda
• 2007Jhoom Barabar Jhoom — Satvinder’s mother
• Kingdom — Head Teacher
• Phineas and Ferb — Baljeet's Mom (voice)
• 2006Scoop — Joe's Co-Passenger
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard — Liz Shannon
• 2006The Children's Party at the Palace — Mary (The BFG)
• Uncle Max — Snooty Neighbour
• Doctor Who — Nasreen Chaudhry
• Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee — Sunita
• Monkey Trousers
• The F Word
• 2005The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million — Joyti De-Laurey
• 2004King of Bollywood — Mrs Jones
• New Tricks — Baroness Samira Khan
• Murder Investigation Team — DCI Anita Wishart
• All About Me — Rupinder
• 2002Anita and Me — Auntie Shaila, Writer, Producer
• 2002Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India — Narrator
• The Jury — Headteacher
• Bedtime — Ruby
• Double Income, No Kids Yet — Katie
• In Deep — Marta Drusic
• Linda Green — Sukie
• The Kumars at No. 42
• Treasure — Voices
• 2000Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime — High Priestess
• Fat Friends — Aysha Kapoor
• 2000Forgive and Forget — Judith Adams
• The Strangerers — Volunteer
• Bad Girls — Janan Hamad
• Holby City — Tara Sodi
• 1998Girls' Night — Carmen
• Goodness Gracious Me — Creator
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries — Madame Marlene
• 1997Flight — Tasleema
• Holding On — Zita
• Keeping Mum — Tina Beare
• Midsomer Murders — Clara Myerscough
• 1997Sixth Happiness — Breathing Generator
• Wavelength — Mrs Kumar
• 1996Beautiful Thing — Miss Chauhan
• 1996Crossing the Floor — Reporter
• Band of Gold — Anne Denver
• Degrees of Error — Dr. Jean Lowell
• 1995It's Not Unusual — Shushila
• 1994A Nice Arrangement — Sita, Story
• Jo Brand Through the Cakehole — Various
• 1994Memsahib Rita — Unumma
• 1994O Mary This London — Ranting woman
• 1993Bhaji on the Beach — Writer
• Absolutely Fabulous — Suzy
• 1992Gummed Labels — Mira
• 1992My Sister-Wife — Farah Khan, Writer
• Sean's Show — Trudy
• Kinsey — Val
• Soldier Soldier — Sangita Sharma
• The Real McCoy
• Drop the Dead Donkey — Barmaid
• 1989Interviewers From Hell
• A Little Princess — Anna
• 1987Sammy and Rosie Get Laid — Rani
• Boon — Council Supervisor
• 1986Handsworth Songs — Voice Over
• To Have and to Hold — Janine
• Black Silk — Mumtaz Khan
• Screen Two — Farah Khan, Ranting Woman, Reporter
• Tandoori Nights — Writer
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ — Mrs. Singh
• 1984Majdhar — Rehana
• The Bill — Linda Morgan, Woman in Street, Solicitor, Miss Choudry
• Natural World — Narrator
• Taggart — Sharon Lal
• The South Bank Show

Appearances as themselves (35)

• Uncanny Post Mortem — Self
• 2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out — Self / Suzy
• Our Tiny Islands — Self - Narrator
• Between the Covers — Self
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest
• Don't Ask Me Ask Britain — Herself
• Our Lives — Self - Narrator
• Richard Osman's House of Games — Self - Contestant
• We Have Been Watching — Self
• John Bishop: In Conversation with... — Self
• 2014All About TWO — Self - Panellist
• Duck Quacks Don't Echo — Self
• Crackanory — Self
• When Were We Funniest? — Self
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self - Panellist
• School's Out — Self
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• 8 Out of 10 Cats — Self
• Nigella — Self
• Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• QI — Self
• Johnny Vaughan Tonight — Self
• It's Only TV But I Like It — Self
• Loose Women — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• 1997A Night in with the Girls — Self
• Ruby — Self
• Room 101 — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self
• This Morning — Self
• An Audience with... — Self