Shobna Gulati
Actor
Born August 7, 1966 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
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 departed 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.
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
Indrani
The Serial Killer's Wife
Kiran
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
Self
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
Self
My Name Is Leon
Salma
Incompatible
Dr Banerjee
The Weakest Link
Self - Contestant
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Ray
Murder, They Hope
Vicky
Celebrity Best Home Cook
Self - Contestant
This Fortress Built By Nature
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Special Guest
Brassic
Gina
On the Edge
Andi
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Ray
Dinnerladies Diaries
Self
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self - Contestant
Finding Fatimah
Saba
In the Club
Fiona
Inside No. 9
Posy
Junkhearts
Beth
Vera
Chief Superintendent Khalon
East Street
Sunita Alahan
Celebrity Juice
Self
Magnolia
Janice
Celebrity Masterchef
New Street Law
Salina Morris
Doctor Who
Najia Khan
Comedy Connections
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Herself
Loose Women
Self
dinnerladies
Anita
Midsomer Murders
Shaila Handsworth
What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?
Self
Ready, Steady, Cook
Self - Guest
GMTV
Self
Have I Got News for You
Self
This Morning
Self
Casualty
Preethi Chhabra
Coronation Street
Sunita Alahan / Sunita Parekh