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Meera Syal

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Meera Syal

Born Jun 27, 1961 · 65 years172 titles 59 movies · 113 TV
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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.

Born

Jun 27, 1961

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

170

Acting credits

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Directing

8

Writing

2

Other crew

Most critically rated

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Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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Undated 1 title(s)