Meera Syal

Meera Syal MBE (born June 27 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is a British Indian comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She was born in Wolverhampton and grew up in Essington, a mining village a few miles to the north. Her Punjabi-born parents came to Britain from New Delhi.

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Syal won the National Student Drama Award for writing One of Us while studying English and Drama at Manchester University. She spend seven years working for the Royal Court Theatre and 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 awarded the MBE in 1997. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.

June 27: June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining....

1961: 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar)....

Essington: Essington is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, England. It is considered by the Office for National Statistics to be part of the Wolverhampton Urban Subdivision, and is within the West Midlands conurbation....