Nina Wadia Biography
Nina Wadia, OBE, is an English actress and comedian who has as Zainab Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Aunty Noor in Citizen Khan, Mrs Hussein in the BBC sitcom Still Open All Hours, and starred in the BBC Two sketch program Goodness Gracious Me.
How old is Nina Wadia? – Age
She is 55 years old as of 18 December 2023. She was born in 1968 in Chingford, London, United Kingdom.
Nina Wadia Family – Education
Wadia was born on December 18, 1968, in Chingford, London, to Indian parents with Parsi ancestry. She has an older brother and an older sister; both of her parents are deceased. When Wadia was nine years old, she relocated to Hong Kong and enrolled in Island School.
Nina Wadia Husband – Children
Wadia is married to composer Raimond Mirza. They originally met in Canada and married in July 1998. They live in Surrey, England. Mirza, like Wadia, is a Parsi, and the pair married in accordance with Parsi traditions.
Nina Wadia Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
Nina Wadia Comedy
Wadia has also made cameo appearances in a number of British comedy and dramas, including 2point4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Thin Ice Chambers, Holby City, Murder in Mind, Doctors, and New Tricks. She was a regular host on ITV’s topical talk show Loose Women from 2005 to 2006. Wadia has also appeared in the E4 adolescent drama Skins, where she played Anwar Kharral’s mother, and in the BBC Three drama West 10 LDN in March 2008. Wadia portrayed a wedding caterer in the comedy film Bend It Like Beckham. In April 2017, she played Khadija in Finding Fatimah, a British romantic comedy.
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Nina Wadia Career
Wadia previously came to noticeable quality in BBC sketch show Gee golly Me, playing characters like Mrs “I can make it at home in vain!” and one portion of The Serious Moms. She took over from her Gee golly Me co-star, Meera Syal, in the job of Rupinder in the sitcom About Me close by Jasper Carrott and Natalia Kills. In 2007, Wadia was given a role as Zainab Masood in the long-running BBC drama EastEnders. Her last appearance as Zainab in EastEnders was on 8 February 2013. She likewise played a minor part in EastEnders in 1994, playing a medical caretaker named Viv who treated Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) when she was hospitalized with a gunfire wound. She likewise shows up as Zainab in the 2010 side project EastEnders: E20.
She assumed a part as the maid in the movie I Can’t Think Straight, coordinated by Shamim Sarif. The film spins around two ladies from Indian and Palestinian privileged outsider networks in the UK who fall head over heels, and Wadia is the maid who rebels at her oppressive Palestinian boss in little ways. She likewise had a minor part in the film Code 46 (2003). She featured in a BFI/BBC film 6th Satisfaction alongside Firdaus Kanga in 1997. The film investigates sexuality, handicap and the Parsees, a little westernized minority in India, of which Wadia herself is a part. She has likewise featured close by Rishi Kapoor playing his better half in a Bollywood film named Namaste London. She voices the lead spot in Ethelbert the Tiger – a youngsters’ program. She likewise played a part in Specialist Who as a specialist in the episode “The Last minute”.
In July 2013, Wadia showed up in Top pick Mr and Mrs. In September 2013, she showed up in ITV’s Enormous Star’s Little Star. Since December 2013, Wadia has featured in Still Open The entire Hours as Mrs Hussein. In January 2015, it was declared that Wadia would have a visitor job in Holby City, as a laid out neurosurgeon Annabelle Cooper. The job will be for five episodes. In April 2017, she showed up as Khadija in Tracking down Fatimah, an English rom-com. In 2019, as a somewhat late projecting call, and in “All the more an Appearance” as Wadia said, she had the minor impact of “Zulla” in the surprisingly realistic revamp of Aladdin coordinated by Fellow Ritchie. In 2020, she showed up in the job of Anna Masani in the 10th time of the famous BBC show series Passing in Heaven. Likewise in 2020, she had a little part in the brief show Separation Stories close by Sheridan Smith which was shot by means of webcam because of the Coronavirus pandemic in the Unified Realm.
From September 2021, Wadia was a candidate for the nineteenth series of Stringently Come Moving, matched with proficient artist Neil Jones. The couple were quick to be wiped out, in the subsequent week. In February 2023, Wadia showed up in an episode of BBC Four’s Spring Strolls, investigating Swaledale in North Yorkshire. Then, at that point, in April 2023, she showed up as Binita Prabhu in the BBC drama Specialists.
Aside from the first radio form of Oh dear Me, Wadia’s other radio work incorporates guesting on Parsons and Naylor’s Take Out Areas, as well as normal appearances in the BBC World Help drama Westway as the drug specialist Namita ul-Haq. In 2001, Wadia voiced the job of Ariel in a BBC Radio 3 creation of The Whirlwind. In 2002, she was because of star in the Illustrious Shakespeare Organization’s creation of 12 PM’s Youngsters, in view of Salman Rushdie’s novel, however she quit just a brief time before practices were because of start. In December 2023 – January 2024, for Christmas and New Year, she made her emulate debut playing Pixie Sugarsnap in Jack and the Beanstalk at the York Theater Imperial from Fri eighth Dec 2023 – Sun seventh Jan 2024.
Nina Wadia Movies
♦ 2022 – Kaur
♦ 2019 – Aladdin
♦ 2019 – Corner Shop Show: Thank You, Come Again
♦ 2018 – Strangeways Here We Come
♦ 2017 – Finding Fatimah
♦ 2016 – A Street Cat Named Bob
♦ 2012 – Keith Lemon: The Film
♦ 2008 – I Can’t Think Straight
♦ 2007 – Namaste London
♦ 2003 – Code 46
♦ 2002 – Bend It Like Beckham
♦ 1997 – Sixth Happiness
Nina Wadia TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Doctors
♦ 2023 – B&B by the Sea
♦ 2023 – Count Abdulla
♦ 2022 – The Sandman
♦ 2021–present – The Outlaws
♦ 2021 – Can I Improve My Memory?
♦ 2021 – Strictly Come Dancing
♦ 2020 – Death in Paradise
♦ 2020 – Isolation Stories
♦ 2020 – The Crystal Maze
♦ 2019–present – Danny & Mick
♦ 2018 – Trollied
♦ 2018 – The Apprentice: You’re Fired!
♦ 2018 – Origin
♦ 2017 – Zapped
♦ 2017 – Hetty Feather
♦ 2017 – Murder on the Blackpool Express
♦ 2015 – Holby City
♦ 2014 – Citizen Khan
♦ 2013–2018 – Still Open All Hours