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Shobna Gulati

Shobna Gulati

Known For Acting
Birthday Aug 07, 1966 (59)
Birthplace Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Nov 15, 2024
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Shobna Gulati (born 7 August 1966) is a British actress, writer, and dancer. Gulati is a soap star best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's dinnerladies, Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009 and depar ... ted again in 2013, and Farah Khurana in River City from 2017 to 2018. From 13 March 2013 to 30 May 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime chatshow Loose Women. Gulati is also one of very few actors to have appeared on both Coronation Street and its rival series EastEnders in 2000. Gulati was born in Oldham, Lancashire to parents of Hindu Indian descent. She has a degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern politics from the University of Manchester. One of Gulati's earliest appearances was as a dancer in the video for Boy George's 1991 single "Bow Down Mister." In the late 1990s, she appeared in both series' of Victoria Wood's BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. She appeared as Ameena Badawi from October to December 2000, in EastEnders. She is one of few to have appeared in both EastEnders and Coronation Street. Gulati appeared as her main character, Sunita, in East Street, the crossover between both soaps in 2010, as part of Children in Need's telethon. In 2001, she appeared in the short film Shadowscan, directed by Tinge Krishnan, which won a Bafta Award; and, in 2004, Gulati was nominated for a Manchester Evening News theatre award for her work in the play Dancing Within Walls, which was staged at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. Gulati has also appeared on the TV 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. In early 2006, Gulati took part in the Reality TV series Soapstar Superstar. After Gulati left Coronation Street initially in 2006, she played Nisha Clayton, a recurring role in the final series of Where the Heart Is, and made appearances in New Street Law and the one-off comedy drama Magnolia which was written by Dave Spikey for BBC's Comedy Playhouse series. In October 2006, Gulati appeared at the Royal Albert Hall as part of a short skit featured in The Secret Policeman's Ball. In the sketch, Gulati and co-star Nitin Ganatra play a holidaying couple who are under the mistaken belief Guantanamo Bay is a holiday resort. The sketch also starred American actors Chevy Chase and Seth Green. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Filmography

My Name Is Leon

My Name Is Leon

2022

as Salma

Finding Fatimah

Finding Fatimah

2017

as Saba

Junkhearts

Junkhearts

2011

as Beth

Shadowscan

Shadowscan

2000

as Satinda

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Coronation Street

as Sunita Alahan / Sunita Parekh

Episodes: 949

First Aired: Dec 09, 1960

dinnerladies

as Anita

Episodes: 16

First Aired: Nov 12, 1998

Murder, They Hope

as Vicky

Episodes: 4

First Aired: May 08, 2021

The Serial Killer's Wife

as Kiran

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Dec 15, 2023

Doctor Who

as Najia Khan

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Mar 26, 2005

In the Club

as Fiona

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 05, 2014

Casualty

as Preethi Chhabra

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1986

Brassic

as Gina

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 22, 2019

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Café Assistant

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 03, 1996

On the Edge

as Andi

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 14, 2018

Inside No. 9

as Posy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 05, 2014

Midsomer Murders

as Shaila Handsworth

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 23, 1997

Soapstar Superstar

Episodes: 19

First Aired: Jan 06, 2006

Celebrity Best Home Cook

as Self - Contestant

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Jan 26, 2021

Richard Osman's House of Games

as Self - Contestant

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Sep 04, 2017

This Morning

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Oct 03, 1988

Love on a Saturday Night

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 07, 2004

Comedy Connections

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 09, 2003

Celebrity Juice

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 2008

New Street Law

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 04, 2006

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 03, 2007

Celebrity Masterchef

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 11, 2006

GMTV

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1993

Saving Planet Earth UK

as Herself - Presenter

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 04, 2007

Ready Steady Cook

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 24, 1994

Loose Women

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1999

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 28, 1990

The Weakest Link

as Self - Contestant

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 18, 2021

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