Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961, although her Who's Who entry gives her date of birth as 27 June 1964) is an Asian-British comedian, 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'...
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Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961, although her Who's Who entry gives her date of birth as 27 June 1964) is an Asian-British comedian, 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.
Beginning of June 2009, Syal is currently starring as Consultant Tara Sodi in Holby City.
Her Punjabi-born parents came to England from New Delhi. She was born in Wolverhampton, England and grew up in Essington, a mining village a few miles to the north. She attended Queen Mary's High School in nearby Walsall.
Syal won the National Student Drama Award for writing One of Us while studying English and Drama at Manchester University....
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