# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meera-syal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:34:12.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meera-syal"
name: "Meera Syal"
slug: "meera-syal"
description: "Dame Meera Syal is an English comedian, writer, playwright, actress, singer and journalist. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and by portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She has become one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities."
tagline: "English author and actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meera_Syal_2017.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.64
  momentum:             6.257853732093491
  historical:           18.26486933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/meera.syal/"
    handle:    "meera.syal"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842934/"
    handle:    "nm0842934"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ميرا سيال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميرا سيال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میرا سایال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "میرا سیال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "میرا سایال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C"
    title: "מירה סיאל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EB%9D%BC_%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%BC"
    title: "미라 사이얼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मीरा स्याल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%B2"
    title: "ਮੀਰਾ ਸਿਆਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ᱢᱤᱨᱟ ᱥᱟᱭᱟᱞ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "میرا سیال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc8f002f-41f2-4beb-8014-3b1d08cda8bf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6975"
    title: "Meera Syal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump