Shobna Gulati
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ve...
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
2025
as Indrani
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
2023
as Self
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
as Self
The Serial Killer's Wife
2023
as Kiran
My Name Is Leon
2022
as Salma
Incompatible
2022
as Dr Banerjee
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021
as Ray
Celebrity Best Home Cook
2021
as Self - Contestant
Murder, They Hope
2021
as Vicky
The Weakest Link
2021
as Self - Contestant
This Fortress Built By Nature
2020
Brassic
2019
as Gina
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
as Self - Special Guest
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2018
as Ray
On the Edge
2018
as Andi
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
as Self
Finding Fatimah
2017
as Saba
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
as Self - Contestant
In the Club
2014
as Fiona
Inside No. 9
2014
as Posy
Junkhearts
2011
as Beth
Vera
2011
as Chief Superintendent Khalon
East Street
2010
as Sunita Alahan
Celebrity Juice
2008
as Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
Saving Planet Earth UK
2007
as Herself - Presenter
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
2006
as Self
Magnolia
2006
as Janice
Soapstar Superstar
2006
Celebrity Masterchef
2006
New Street Law
2006
as Salina Morris
Doctor Who
2005
as Najia Khan
Love on a Saturday Night
2004
Comedy Connections
2003
Shadowscan
2000
as Satinda
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Herself
Loose Women
1999
as Self
dinnerladies
1998
as Anita
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Shaila Handsworth
What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?
1994
as Self
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
as Self - Guest
GMTV
1993
as Self
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
This Morning
1988
as Self
Casualty
1986
as Preethi Chhabra
Coronation Street
1960
as Sunita Alahan / Sunita Parekh