Personal Info
Shobna Gulati
Acting
Biography
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.
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Known For
Filmography
Movies
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
as Indrani
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
as Self
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
as Self
My Name Is Leon
as Salma
Incompatible
as Dr Banerjee
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
as Ray
This Fortress Built By Nature
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
as Ray
Finding Fatimah
as Saba
Junkhearts
as Beth
TV Shows
The Serial Killer's Wife
as Kiran · 4 ep.
The Weakest Link
as Self - Contestant · 1 ep.
Murder, They Hope
as Vicky · 4 ep.
Celebrity Best Home Cook
as Self - Contestant · 8 ep.
Brassic
as Gina · 1 ep.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Special Guest · 1 ep.
On the Edge
as Andi · 1 ep.
Dinnerladies Diaries
as Self · 3 ep.
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant · 5 ep.
Inside No. 9
as Posy · 1 ep.