Shobna Gulati

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Shobna Gulati (born 7 August 1966) is a British actor, reporter, and dancer.

Gulati, a soap actress best known for his appearances in Victoria Wood's dinnerladies, Sunita Alahan's long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006 (a part in which she returned to in 2013) and Farah Khurana in River City from 2017 to 2018.

Gulati appeared on the lunchtime chat show Loose Women from March 13, 2013 to May 30, 2014. Gulati is also one of the few actors to have appeared on both Coronation Street and its rival series EastEnders in 2010.

Early life

Gulati was born in Oldham, Lancashire, North West England, to Indian Punjabi Hindu parents. She grew up in the Salcombe, Manchester, area where she became friends with actress Sarah Lancashire. She earned a degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Manchester.

Personal life

Gulati is the daughter of K.A. Gulati was born in Oldham, India, in 1960. She has a younger brother, Rajesh, as well as two older sisters, Sushma and Hema.

Gulati married architect Anshu Srivastava in a Hindu ceremony on November 10th; the couple divorced in May 1994. Shobna separated from her husband and became pregnant. Shobna was in a relationship with ex-Emmerdale actor Gary Turner from 1999 to 2003.

Gulati has a working knowledge of six languages and is a vocal promoter of Asian women's rights and various anti-racism campaigns. Shobna works on female body image issues. Shobna is both a Manchester United supporter and a season ticket holder.

Shobna was appointed as a deputy lieutenant of Greater Manchester in 2015. This gives her the ability to use the Post Nominal Letters "DL" for life.

Gulati's Instagram bio shows that she/her and they/them pronouns are interchangeable.

Following the assassination of Shafilea Ahmed, Gulati was dragged into join a murder hunt in December 2004. Gulati read out a press conference seeking more information about the teen's death. "This was a testimony to her sorrow at being caught in a culture clash with other members of her family," Gulati said. Gulati said after the reading, that she believed they had shown that Shafilea was trapped between two cultures. "If you're born here," she said, "it can be very difficult," she said, but your parents are not, and there can be a lot of cultural barriers." "It's a crisis facing many young Asian women who are unable to express themselves properly within their families." These are the words she would use when talking to her friends, according to me. If she is out there, she should let people know she is safe because there are companies and individuals that can assist her."

Gulati went on to say that she sympathized with the teen's inability of balancing her faith with her upbringing. "She has obviously been unable to express herself in terms of her family, and she has possibly told her friends or written these songs in private."

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Career

In the video for Boy George's 1991 single "Bow Down Mister," one of Gulati's earliest appearances was as a dancer. She appeared in both series of Victoria Wood's BBC sitcom dinnerladies in the late 1990s. Ameena Badawi appeared in EastEnders from October to December 2000. She appeared on Coronation Street as Sunita and in the same role on "East Street," a cross between both soaps, as part of the 2010 Children In Need telethon. She appeared in the short film Shadowscan, directed by Tinge Krishnan, in 2001, and was nominated for a Manchester Evening News theatre award for her role in the play Dancing Within Walls, which was performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester.

Gulati has also appeared on television quiz shows Call My Bluff, Have I Got News for You, The Weakest Link, Russian Roulette, and As Diana Ross in Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes. Gulati appeared in the Reality TV series Soapstar Superstar in early 2006.

After Gulati left Coronation Street for the first time in 2006, she appeared in Nisha Clayton, a regular role in the final series of Where the Heart Is, and Magnolia, a one-off comedy script developed by Dave Spikey for BBC's Comedy Playhouse.

Gulati appeared in The Secret Policeman's Ball in October 2006 as part of a brief skit. Gulati and her co-star Nitin Ganatra portray a holidaying couple in the sketch, who are under the incorrect assumption that Guantanamo Bay is a holiday destination. Chevy Chase and Seth Green, two American actors, appeared on the sketch as well.

Gulati was one of the storytellers in a CBBC revival of Jackanory and her UK tour of Louise Roche's hit play Girls Night. She appeared on Channel 4's Children, tracing her family's roots during India's partition. In summer 2007, she appeared in Pretend You Have Big Buildings at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

Gulati made her debut as a filmmaker in 2008 by directing Akshay's short film for the motiroti's 60x60 secs. This was shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray short film competitions. Sunita Alahan, a former Coronation Street actress who remained for three years, returned to her Coronation Street role during this time.

Gulati appeared on BBC1's programme Celebrity MasterChef on June 11, 2009. She appeared on CBBC as a guest story teller for Bedtime Stories in early 2009 and has performed as a first stage tour of dinnerladies. Gulati made her Loose Women debut on November 18th, 2010 to celebrate Coronation Street's 50th anniversary, as she appeared alongside regulars Kate Thornton, Sherrie Hewson, and Carol McGiffin. During soap week, Gulati returned to the show on April 11, 2012, alongside regulars Andrea McLean, Jane McDonald, and Janet Street-Porter. Gulati returned to the show as a regular from 13 March 2013, taking over from Sally Lindsay who took time off to film Mount Pleasant from September 2013. Gulati became an occasional panelist on the program before retiring on May 30.

Gulati appeared on Countdown in June 2011. She announced her departure from Coronation Street and expressed her desire to write and perform more comedy than her time in a soap opera had allowed. In 2016, she appeared in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid. On September 29, 2016, Gulati made a guest appearance in Casualty.

She appeared as Saba in the British romantic comedy film Finding Fatimah in 2017. Gulati appeared in Doctor Who's "Arachnids in the United Kingdom" and "Demons of the Punjab" as Najia Khan, the Doctor's companion Yasmin Khan.

In the West End production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre in 2018, she played Ray. Gulati plays Ray alongside Sarah Lancashire, which has been adapted into a screenplay. Everybody's Talking About Jamie, which was released on September 17, 2021. Gulati starred in the three-part comedy thriller thriller film "Murder, They Hope" in May 2021.

Gulati wrote a book about losing a parent to dementia based on her experiences caring for her mother, who died in 2019. Gulati revealed in a book's public interviews that she had contracted Coronavirus earlier this year.

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