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Meera Syal
Meera Syal | |
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Born | Feeroza Syal 27 June 1961 [1] Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England |
Occupation | Actress, singer, writer, playwright, comedienne, producer, journalist, television presenter |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse | Shekhar Bhatia (m. 1989–2002) Sanjeev Bhaskar (m. 2005–present) |
Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal[2] 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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Life and career
Her Punjabi-born parents came to England from New Delhi. She was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (now West Midlands) and grew up in Essington, a mining village a few miles to the north. When she was a young girl the family moved to Bloxwich. She attended Queen Mary's High School in nearby Walsall, and then studied English and drama at Manchester University.
Syal wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach, directed by Gurinder Chadha, of Bend It Like Beckham fame. She was one of the team who wrote and performed in the BBC comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me (1996–2001), originally on radio and then on television.
She achieved a number one record with Gareth Gates and her co-stars from The Kumars at No. 42 with Spirit in the Sky, the Comic Relief single. She also sang Then He Kissed Me (composed by Biddu) with the Pakistani pop star Nazia Hassan. Syal, Hassan, and Bidddu also came up with the girl band named "Saffron" in 1988[citation needed].
In October 2008 she starred in the BBC2 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 Trafalgar Studios. In the same year she played Nasreen Chroudhry in two episodes of Doctor Who alongside Matt Smith. Her Goodness Gracious Me co-star, Nina Wadia, also appeared earlier in the same series episode "The Eleventh Hour".
Awards and recognition
Syal won the National Student Drama Award for performing in One of Us which was written by Jacqueline Shapiro while at university. She won the Betty Trask Award for her first book Anita and Me and the Media Personality of the Year award at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media awards in 2000.
She was given the Nazia Hassan Foundation award in 2003.
In June 2003 she appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme with a selection of music by Nitin Sawhney, Madan Bala Sindhu, Joni Mitchell, Pizzicato Five, Sukhwinder Singh, Louis Armstrong and others. The luxury she chose to ease her life as a castaway was a piano.[3] As a journalist she writes occasionally for The Guardian.
Personal life
In 2004 she took part in one episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated her family history. One of her parents is Hindu and the other a Sikh and since both share the same cultural heritage the families had no problem at all.[4] Syal was apparently surprised to discover both her grandfathers had campaigned against British rule and presence in India: one was a communist journalist; the other was a Punjab protestor, who was imprisoned and tortured in the Golden Temple.
In January 2005, Syal married her frequent collaborator, Sanjeev Bhaskar, who plays her grandson in The Kumars At No. 42; the marriage ceremony took place in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Their baby, a boy named Shaan, was born at the Portland Hospital on 2 December 2005. Syal has a daughter called Chameli from her former marriage to journalist Shekhar Bhatia. Her brother is investigative journalist Rajeev Syal.
In February 2009, Syal was one of a number of British entertainers who signed an open letter printed in The Times protesting about the persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran.
In January 2011, Syal took part in the BBC Radio 4 programme My Teenage Diary,[5] discussing growing up as the only British Asian girl in a small English town, feeling overweight and unattractive.
Writing credits
Screenplays
- Anita and Me (2002)
- Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
Stage
- One of Us (1983)
- The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show (1992)
- Goodness Gracious Me (1999)
- Bombay Dreams (2002)
- Shirley Valentine (2010)
- The Killing of Sister George (2011)
Radio
- Goodness Gracious Me (1996–98)
- Masala FM (1996)
- Woman's Hour Drama: A Small Town Murder (2010)
Television
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (1985)
- Tandoori Nights (1985)
- The Real McCoy (1991)
- My Sister Wife (1994)
- Goodness Gracious Me (1998)
- Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2005)
- Beautiful People (2008)
- Horrible Histories (UK Children's TV series)(2010)
- Uncle Santa (UK Little Crackers TV series) (2010)
- Doctor Who 2 Episodes (2010)
- The Jury (2011)
Novels
- Anita and Me (1996)
- Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999), published in German under the title Sari, Jeans und Chilischoten in 2003
Selected filmography
- The One of Us (1983)
- Majdhar (1983)
- The Diary of Adrian Mole (1985)
- A Little Princess (1986)
- Sunday East (1986–87)
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
- Serious Money (1987)
- Peer Gynt (1990)
- The Real McCoy (1991)
- Gummed Labels (1992)
- Taggart (1992)
- The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show (1992)
- Sean's Show (1993)
- The Brain Drain (1993)
- Absolutely Fabulous (1994)
- New Best Friend (1994)
- Flight (1995)
- Degrees of Error (1995)
- Band of Gold (1995)
- It's Not Unusual (1995)
- Drop The Dead Donkey (1996)
- A Nice Arrangement (1996)
- Beautiful Thing (1996)
- Marsala FM (1996)
- Crossing The Floor (1996)
- Ruby (1997)
- Sixth Happiness (1997)
- The Book Quiz (1998)
- No Crying He Makes (1998)
- Keeping Mum (1998)
- Legal Affairs (1998)
- The World As We Know It (1999)
- Late Lunch (1999)
- Room 101 (1999)
- The Vagina Monologues (2001)
- Double Income, No Kids Yet (2001)
- Anita and Me (2002)
- QI (2003)
- Bad Girls (2004)
- Bombay Dreams (2004)
- Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2005)
- Murder Investigation Team (2005)
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006)
- Who Do You Think You Are? (2006)
- 8 Out of 10 Cats (2006)
- Rafta Rafta (2006)
- Jekyll (2007)
- Kingdom (2007)
- Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
- The One Show (2008)
- When Were We Funniest? (2008)
- Beautiful People (2008–09)
- Holby City (2009)
- Desert Flower (2009)
- Minder (2009)
- Horrible Histories(2009)
- Doctor Who: "The Hungry Earth" (2010) and "Cold Blood" (2010)
Academic reception
Her book Anita and Me has found its way onto school and university English syllabuses both in Britain and abroad. Scholarly literature on it includes:
- Rocío G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139-46.
- Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce "Invisible Cities: Being and Creativity in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me and Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods", in Philip Laplace and Éric Tabuteau (eds), Cities on the Margin/ On the Margin of Cities: Representations of Urban Space in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2003: 113–30.
- Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637-59.
References
- ^ http://web.researcha.com/iccquery/detail/?did=5805521&c=uk Researcha
- ^ Births England and Wales 1837-2006 FindMyPast.co.uk
- ^ BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Meera Syal
- ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? with Meera Syal". Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. BBC Two. 2004-12-07.
- ^ BBC Radio 4 My Teenage Diary, 11 January 2011
- Meera Syal MBE video Interview DESIblitz.com
- Alison Donnell (editor), Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, ISBN 0-415-16989-5
External links
- Meera Syal at the Internet Movie Database
- British Council: Meera Syal
- In Conversation with Meera Syal, BAFTA webcast, March 2008
- Meera Syal's CV at PFD
- 'I thank the universe for the good stuff' BBC News - 28 February 2009
- 1961 births
- Living people
- British actors of South Asian descent
- English comedians
- English Hindus
- English dramatists and playwrights
- English film actors
- English film producers
- English musical theatre actors
- English novelists
- English people of Indian descent
- English screenwriters
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- English television producers
- English television writers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People associated with the University of Manchester
- People from Wolverhampton
- Punjabi people
Источник: Meera Syal
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