Shobna Gulati
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 7, 1966, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movies
- 17
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.
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.
Best-Known Movies
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021
Junkhearts
2011
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2018
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Finding Fatimah
2017
My Name Is Leon
2022
What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?
1994
Incompatible
2022
This Fortress Built By Nature
2020
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
2023
Filmography
| 2025 | National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes | Indrani |
| 2023 | The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa | Self |
| 2023 | Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial | Self |
| 2022 | My Name Is Leon | Salma |
| 2022 | Incompatible | Dr Banerjee |
| 2021 | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Ray |
| 2020 | This Fortress Built By Nature | |
| 2019 | Richard II | Duke of York |
| 2018 | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Ray |
| 2017 | Finding Fatimah | Saba |
| 2011 | Junkhearts | Beth |
| 2010 | East Street | Sunita Alahan |
| 2006 | The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall | Self |
| 2006 | Magnolia | Janice |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Herself |
| 2000 | Shadowscan | Satinda |
| 1994 | What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny? | Self |
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