Meera Syal

Acting

Born: 1961-06-27
From: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.6

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.

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Awards & Nominations6 won · 0 nominated

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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2026
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BAFTA Fellowship

2023
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2016
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2015
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Member of the Order of the British Empire

1997
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Betty Trask Award

1996

Acting125 titles

Writing7 titles

Production1 title

Creator1 title