Biography
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.
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Awards & recognition
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2026
- BAFTA Fellowship · 2023
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2016
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2015
- Member of the Order of the British Empire · 1997
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- Betty Trask Award · 1996
Filmography50+ titles
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Horrible Histories
The Sandman
Broadchurch
Phineas and Ferb
QI
Fat Friends
Would I Lie to You?
A Little Princess
The Wheel of Time
Desert Flower
Doctor Who
Bad Girls
We Are Lady Parts
Paddington 2
Silk
Midsomer Murders
Absolutely Fabulous
Back to Life
Doctor Strange
Natural World
The Devil's Hour
The Job Lot
New Tricks
The Split
8 Out of 10 Cats
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Beautiful Thing
The Musketeers
Kingdom
Spin
Dragon Rider
Who Do You Think You Are?
Murder Investigation Team
The Jury
Drop the Dead Donkey
The Smeds and the Smoos
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Soldier Soldier
The Bill
The Canterville Ghost
Yesterday
Patrick the Pug
Hunted
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Scoop
Taggart
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms