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Meera Syal

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1961-06-27

Birth Place

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

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8 Out of 10 Cats

2005

7.1

TV
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A Little Princess

1987

7.5

TV
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2016

10.0

Movie
A Nice Arrangement

A Nice Arrangement

1994

6.0

Movie
A Night in with the Girls

A Night in with the Girls

1997

0.0

Movie
Absolutely Anything

Absolutely Anything

2015

5.9

Movie
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Absolutely Fabulous

1992

7.5

TV
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

2024

0.0

Movie
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

2000

9.0

Movie
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

6.6

Movie
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All About Me

2002

0.0

TV
All in Good Time

All in Good Time

2012

6.6

Movie
Amar Akbar & Tony

Amar Akbar & Tony

2015

6.0

Movie
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An Audience with...

1978

5.3

TV
Anita and Me

Anita and Me

2002

5.9

Movie
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Bad Girls

1999

7.6

TV
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Beautiful People

2008

7.3

TV
Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing

1996

7.3

Movie
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Bedtime

2001

2.0

TV
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Beena and Amrit

2021

0.0

TV
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

2015

0.0

Movie
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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

2015

0.0

TV
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Between the Covers

2020

5.5

TV
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India

Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India

2002

0.0

Movie
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016

8.0

Movie
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt

Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt

2017

10.0

Movie
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Broadchurch

2013

7.9

TV
Crossing the Floor

Crossing the Floor

1996

6.7

Movie
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Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind

2004

8.3

TV
Desert Flower

Desert Flower

2009

7.5

Movie
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Diana's Decades

2021

0.0

TV
Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

2016

7.4

Movie
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Doctor Who

2005

7.5

TV
Dragon Rider

Dragon Rider

2020

7.1

Movie
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Drop the Dead Donkey

1990

6.9

TV
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Duck Quacks Don't Echo

2014

5.7

TV
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Fat Friends

2000

7.6

TV
Flavia de Luce

Flavia de Luce

0.0

Movie
Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget

2000

5.5

Movie
Girls' Night

Girls' Night

1998

6.8

Movie
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GMTV

1993

5.8

TV
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Goodness Gracious Me

1996

6.4

TV
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Hamish Macbeth

1995

7.7

TV
Handsworth Songs

Handsworth Songs

1986

5.5

Movie
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Have I Got News for You

1990

7.1

TV
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Holding On

1997

8.0

TV
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Horrible Histories

2009

8.0

TV
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In Deep

2001

10.0

TV
It's Not Unusual

It's Not Unusual

1995

6.0

Movie
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It's Only TV But I Like It

1999

6.0

TV
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Jekyll

2007

7.6

TV
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

2007

3.9

Movie
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John Bishop: In Conversation with...

2016

7.0

TV
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Johnny Vaughan Tonight

2002

5.0

TV
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Kate & Koji

2020

5.6

TV
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Keeping Mum

1997

0.0

TV
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Kingdom

2007

7.2

TV
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Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee

2005

0.0

TV
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Little Crackers

2010

6.8

TV
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Loose Women

1999

3.4

TV
Mad Sad & Bad

Mad Sad & Bad

2009

4.9

Movie
Majdhar

Majdhar

1984

0.0

Movie
Memsahib Rita

Memsahib Rita

1994

0.0

Movie
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Midsomer Murders

1997

7.5

TV
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Monkey Trousers

2005

7.0

TV
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Mrs Sidhu Investigates

2023

7.1

TV
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

2012

0.0

Movie
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Murder Investigation Team

2003

5.5

TV
My Sister-Wife

My Sister-Wife

1992

0.0

Movie
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

2015

0.0

Movie
Nativity Rocks!

Nativity Rocks!

2018

3.6

Movie
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Natural World

1983

7.0

TV
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Nigella

2005

6.0

TV
O Mary This London

O Mary This London

1994

0.0

Movie
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Original Comedy Shorts

2014

6.0

TV
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Our Lives

2017

0.0

TV
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Our Tiny Islands

2024

0.0

TV
Paddington 2

Paddington 2

2017

7.5

Movie
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Parkinson

1998

0.0

TV
Patrick

Patrick

2018

6.7

Movie
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QI

2003

8.0

TV
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Richard Osman's House of Games

2017

5.9

TV
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Roar

2022

5.7

TV
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Room 101

1994

6.2

TV
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Ruby

1997

0.0

TV
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

1987

5.6

Movie
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School's Out

2006

0.0

TV
Scoop

Scoop

2006

6.6

Movie
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Soldier Soldier

1991

6.4

TV
Spin

Spin

2021

6.9

Movie
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Taggart

1983

6.3

TV
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The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007

3.7

TV
The Almond and the Seahorse

The Almond and the Seahorse

2022

4.8

Movie
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The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

2006

6.2

TV
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The Bill

1984

6.6

TV
The Boy in the Dress

The Boy in the Dress

2014

6.4

Movie
The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

2023

6.2

Movie
The Children's Party at the Palace

The Children's Party at the Palace

2006

2.0

Movie
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The Devil's Hour

2022

7.3

TV
The Homestay

The Homestay

2018

5.5

Movie
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The Jury

2002

6.0

TV
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The Kumars

2014

5.0

TV
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The Kumars at No. 42

2001

5.8

TV
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The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

1998

6.9

TV
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The Musketeers

2014

7.0

TV
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

6.1

Movie
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The One Show

2006

4.6

TV
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The Real McCoy

1991

6.0

TV
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

6.2

TV
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The Sandman

2022

8.0

TV
The Smeds and the Smoos

The Smeds and the Smoos

2023

6.5

Movie
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The Split

2018

7.4

TV
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The Strangerers

2000

6.0

TV
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The Wheel of Time

2021

7.7

TV
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This Morning

1988

5.7

TV
To Provide All People

To Provide All People

2018

6.0

Movie
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Walliams & Friend

2016

5.2

TV
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We Are Lady Parts

2021

7.6

TV
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We Have Been Watching

2017

0.0

TV
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When Were We Funniest?

2008

0.0

TV
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Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

6.6

TV
Yesterday

Yesterday

2019

6.7

Movie
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010

5.9

Movie