Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Actor 40 / Author 3 / Executive Producer · 1987 – 2026 · 🎬 21 📺 21 📖 3 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Dame Meera Syal is an English comedian, writer, playwright, actress, singer and journalist. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and by portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She has become one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities.

All · 45 🎬 Movies · 21 📺 TV · 21 📖 Books · 3

Comedy Drama Fantasy Family Romance

Frequent Collaborators

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar

7 shared

Gordon Kennedy

Gordon Kennedy

4 shared

Suk Pannu

4 shared

Terry Jones

Terry Jones

3 shared

Shaheen Khan

Shaheen Khan

3 shared

Alison Snowden

Alison Snowden

3 shared

All decades 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

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🎬 Movies

Lysistrata

actor

2026

Tinsel Town

Tinsel Town

actor

2025

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes

actor

2025

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

actor

2023

The Almond and the Seahorse

The Almond and the Seahorse

actor

2022

Spin

Spin

actor

2021

Dragon Rider

Dragon Rider

actor

2020

Yesterday

Yesterday

actor

2019

Nativity Rocks!

Nativity Rocks!

actor

2018

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

actor

2018

Patrick

Patrick

actor

2018

To Provide All People

actor

2018

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

actor

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

actor

2016

Absolutely Anything

Absolutely Anything

actor

2015

All in Good Time

All in Good Time

actor

2012

Desert Flower

Desert Flower

actor

2009

Scoop

Scoop

actor

2006

Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget

actor

2000

Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing

actor

1996

Bhaji on the Beach

Bhaji on the Beach

writer

1993

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