Actor

Shobna Gulati

August 7, 1966 · 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.

Notable work

7.6
Doctor Who (2005)
as Najia Khan
7.5
Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Shaila Handsworth

Often works with

Christopher Eccleston
2 titles together
Doctor Who, My Name Is Leon
Katherine Parkinson
2 titles together
Inside No. 9, In the Club
Anne Reid
2 titles together
Inside No. 9, dinnerladies
Steve Evets
2 titles together
Brassic, Vera
Wunmi Mosaku
2 titles together
Vera, On the Edge
John McCrea
2 titles together
Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Full filmography · 27

The Serial Killer's Wife
as Kiran
20235.9
Murder, They Hope
as Vicky
2021
Brassic
as Gina
20198.3
On the Edge
as Andi
2018
In the Club
as Fiona
2014
Inside No. 9
as Posy
20148.1
Vera
as Chief Superintendent Khalon
20117.4
Celebrity Masterchef
cast
2006
New Street Law
as Salina Morris
2006
Soapstar Superstar
cast
2006
Doctor Who
as Najia Khan
20057.6
Comedy Connections
cast
2003