Meera Syal

Meera Syal (* June 27, 1961 in Essington near Wolverhampton ) is a writer, comedian, singer, actress and journalist.

Meera Syals parents came in 1960 from Delhi to England and spoke originally Punjabi, while Meera, however, grew up with English as their mother tongue in a village in central England. She visited her parents' homeland several times. Where they no word Panjabi spoke at the first few times, but not what you were doomed because their two cousins ​​who traveled command of the language.

She loved to go to school. Her mother was a teacher who Meera to earlier have always asked to be good in school.

Meera Syal studied in Manchester English and theater. In their final year of study led to a one- woman show in which she was discovered. Syal wrote the screenplay for Gurinder Chadha's very successful film " Bhaji on the Beach ", as well as two novels: Anita and Me (1996) and Life Is not All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999; title of the German edition: sari, jeans and chillies or marriage to Indian), both of which were filmed.

Syal became famous mainly through participation in the highly successful BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me (1998-2001) and The Kumars at No. 42, which popularized the Indian culture as a subject of the British entertainment culture. In 2007 she took part in the TV series Jekyll.

In 2005, she married her long-time friend and co-star of Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No. 42 Sanjeev Bhaskar, with whom she has a son. In marriage Syal brought her daughter Chameli a ( from the marriage with Shekhar Bhatia ).