Meera Syal

Acting

Meera Syal

Born 1961-06-27 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK 58 films

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 li…

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Filmography

58 films
Lysistrata poster

Lysistrata and the women of Athens and Sparta take a radical decision to bring an end to the war be…

Lysistrata

★ 0.0 2026

Tinsel Town poster

A washed-up Hollywood action hero is tricked into starring in a small English town’s chaotic Christ…

Tinsel Town

★ 5.8 2025

Samosa & Sons poster

A submissive small-town man married to an ultra-modern cosmopolitan is brainwashed into producing a…

Samosa & Sons

★ 2.0 2023

Spin poster

Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her…

Spin

★ 6.9 2021

Dragon Rider poster

An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to…

Dragon Rider

★ 6.9 2020

Yesterday poster

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after wak…

Yesterday

★ 6.7 2019