Meera Syal
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Meera Syal (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is an English comedian, writer, playwright, journalist, and actor.
She came to fame as one of the team behind Goodness Gracious Me and the portrayal of Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 1. 42.
She became one of the UK's most well-known Asian celebrities. In 1997, she was elected Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and was voted One of the 50 Funniest Acts in British comedy in The Observer.
In the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama and literature, she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Early life
Syal was born in Wolverhampton on June 27, 1961, and grew up in Essington, Staffordshire, a mining village just a few miles to the north. Surinder Syal (father) and Surinder Kaur Uppal (mother), her Indian Punjabi parents, came from New Delhi. Khatri's father was killed, and Jat's mother was Jat. The family moved to Bloxwich, north of Walsall, when she was young.
In a 2003 BBC interview, this landscape and the family's status as the sole Asian family in Essington, Midlands, was later to inspire her book Anita and Me, which Syal described as semi-autobiographical. She attended Queen Mary's High School in Walsall and then studied English and Drama at Manchester University, graduating with a Double First.
Personal life
Shekhar Bhatia, a journalist, married in 1989, and the two children were born together before divorcing in 2002. Syal married Sanjeev Bhaskar, who plays her grandson in the Kumars at No. 5. 42; the wedding reception took place in Staffordshire's Lichfield register office. They have a son who was born in 2005.
Syal appeared on BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?, which looked at her family history in 2004. Both her grandfathers were supporters of the Indian independence movement, one as a communist journalist and the other as a Punjab activist briefly detained in the Golden Temple for a short period of time.
Syal appeared on BBC Radio 4's My Teenage Diary in January 2011, discussing growing up as the only British Asian girl in a small English town, feeling overweight and unattractive.
Rajeev Syal, an investigative journalist who covers Whitehall, is Syal's brother, who writes for The Guardian.
Syal was one of a number of British entertainers who signed an open letter published in The Times in February 2009 protesting Bahár persecution in Iran.
Acting and writing career
During her studies, Syal joined the Stephen Joseph Studio, acting and latterly writing stage plays. On graduation, she had secured a place to study for an MA in drama and psychotherapy at the University of Leeds, and then to study for a PGCE to teach. However, she had also co-written the one-woman play One of Us with Jackie Shapiro, in which Syal performed all fifteen parts, about a West Midlands-born ethnic Indian girl who ran away from home to become an actress. First performed at the Stephen Joseph Studio, she then performed it at the National Student Drama Festival where it won a prize to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival, where it also won a prize. As a result, a director from the Royal Court Theatre contacted Syal, and asked her to perform in a play at the Royal Court on a three-year contract.
Syal wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach, directed by Gurinder Chadha, of Bend It Like Beckham fame. In 1996 she played Miss Chauhan, a high school soccer coach in the film Beautiful Thing. She was on the team that wrote and performed in the BBC comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me (1996–2001), originally on radio and then on television. She was a scriptwriter on A.R. Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams and she played the grandmother Sushila in the International Emmy-award-winning series The Kumars at No. 42, which ran for seven series, reviving the character in 2021 for BBC Radio 4's Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar.
In October 2008, she starred in the BBC Two sitcom Beautiful People. This role, as Aunty Hayley, continued in 2009. Syal starred in the eleventh series of Holby City as consultant Tara Sodi. In 2009, she guest starred in Minder and starred in the film Mad, Sad & Bad. In 2010, she played Shirley Valentine in a one-woman show at the Menier Chocolate Factory, later transferring to Trafalgar Studios. In the same year she played Nasreen Chaudhry in two episodes of Doctor Who alongside Matt Smith.