Meera Syal
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.019 |
| Birthday | 1961-06-27 |
| Place of Birth | Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
2006
Scoop
6.6/1614
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Scoop
1996
Beautiful Thing
7.3/301
Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
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Beautiful Thing
1998
Girls' Night
6.8/9
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she'...
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Girls' Night
2009
Desert Flower
7.5/419
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is n...
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Desert Flower
2021
Spin
6.9/51
Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves aro...
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Spin
2022
The Almond and the Seahorse
4.8/11
For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's...
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The Almond and the Seahorse
2006
The Children's Party at the Palace
2/3
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The Children's Party at the Palace
1997
A Night in with the Girls
0/0
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
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A Night in with the Girls
2002
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
0/0
A British-made documentary about the highly competitive world of beauty pageants in India, culminating with the top prize: Miss India. Following the e...
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Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
Flavia de Luce
0/0
The adventures of 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is both an amateur detective and a master poisoner. When she discovers a dead body in her family’s d...
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Flavia de Luce
2012
All in Good Time
6.6/7
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself...
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All in Good Time
2009
Mad Sad & Bad
4.9/8
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad i...
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Mad Sad & Bad
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
10/1
A recording of the final night of Emma Rice's transgressive and flamboyant production of Shakespeare's comedy at the Globe in London. Four runaway lov...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2015
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
0/0
Through ten carefully chosen cover versions that whisk us from the British Invasion to a noughties X Factor final, this film journeys over five decade...
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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2017
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
10/1
Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street.
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Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
2023
The Canterville Ghost
6.2/24
An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
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The Canterville Ghost
1992
My Sister-Wife
0/0
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a marr...
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My Sister-Wife
2000
Forgive and Forget
5.5/17
David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship h...
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Forgive and Forget
1994
A Nice Arrangement
6/1
Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as pos...
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A Nice Arrangement
1995
It's Not Unusual
6/1
A taxi driver is driven to distraction by her love of Tom Jones.
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It's Not Unusual
2012
Much Ado About Nothing
0/0
Iqbal Khan's vibrant and colourful production transposed Shakespeare's vivacious and sometimes unsettling comedy of love and deceit to an Indian setti...
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Much Ado About Nothing
2014
The Boy in the Dress
6.4/35
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and broth...
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The Boy in the Dress
2023
The Smeds and the Smoos
6.5/6
In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Ja...
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The Smeds and the Smoos
2018
The Homestay
5.5/2
A sheltered Indian couple visits their son in the U.S. for the first time and bungles their apartment rental, ending up in close quarters with their h...
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The Homestay
2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
3.8/31
London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki met his fiance Anaida...
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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
1986
Handsworth Songs
5.5/10
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archiv...
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Handsworth Songs
2015
Absolutely Anything
5.901/1440
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
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Absolutely Anything
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
8/21
Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.
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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
6.562/6387
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
5.916/841
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2015
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
0/0
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of the...
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National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2002
Anita and Me
5.9/23
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her...
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Anita and Me
2018
Patrick
6.7/244
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
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Patrick
2017
Paddington 2
7.458/2345
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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Paddington 2
2020
Dragon Rider
7.1/155
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe ha...
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Dragon Rider
1996
Crossing the Floor
6.7/3
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the oppos...
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Crossing the Floor
2018
To Provide All People
6/1
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birt...
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To Provide All People
2018
Nativity Rocks!
3.7/16
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
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Nativity Rocks!
1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
5.6/19
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intelle...
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
2019
Yesterday
6.697/3896
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where they never exi...
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Yesterday
1994
Memsahib Rita
0/0
Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the...
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Memsahib Rita
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
6.1/2122
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could chang...
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2016
Doctor Strange
7.4/22064
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...
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Doctor Strange
1984
Majdhar
0/0
Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores b...
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Majdhar
2000
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
9/1
A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
1994
O Mary This London
0/0
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adve...
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O Mary This London
2015
Amar Akbar & Tony
6/3
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen ch...
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Amar Akbar & Tony
2014
The Boy in the Dress
0/0
Dennis is an ordinary boy but he feels different. He creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - can a boy wear a dress?
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The Boy in the Dress
2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
0/0
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tri...
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