Shobna Gulati

Theatre

For the National Theatre: A Tupperware of Ashes

In London’s West End: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (also on tours)

Other theatre includes: Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe; Anita and Me at Birmingham Rep and on tour; Grease at Leicester Curve; Hunger for Trade, Pretend You Have Big Buildings, B!rth and Café Vesuvio at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Mamma Mia!, April in Paris, Crazy Lady and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on tours; How High is Up? and The Jungle Book at West Yorkshire Playhouse; You’re Thinking of Doughnuts at Nottingham Playhouse; Moti Roti Puttli Chunni at Stratford East; Romeo and Juliet at Leicester Haymarket; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream on tour for Tara Arts

Opera

The Mikado at the New Vic and Stephen Joseph; and The Mahabharata for Year of Opera and Musical Theatre

TV

Vera, Inside No. 9, Brassic, The Serial Killer’s Wife, Hullraisers, Midsomer Murders, My Name is Leon, Murder, They Hope, Doctor Who, Moving On, Hold the Sunset, River City, Casualty, Doctors, Paranoid, In the Club, You Me and Them, Magnolia, The Slammer, Treasure Champs, Jackanory, Bedtime Stories, New Street Law, Where the Heart Is, Coronation Street, EastEnders and dinnerladies

Film

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Before I Do, Incompatible, Finding Fatimah, Adulting, Junkhearts, Ashes and Shadowscan

Voice work

The Break, Beena and Amrit, Bess Loves Porgy and Descent

Awards

Richard II – 2019 Eastern Eye ACTA Award for Best Actress in Theatre

Coronation Street – 2003 CRE Race In Media Award for Best Actress in Serial Drama

Shadowscan – 2001 BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film

In 2024, Shobna Gulati received an MBE for her services to the cultural industries. She has also authored a book titled Remember Me? Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory.

(Published September 2024. Photo: Andy Hollingworth)