Zita Sattar
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Zita Sattar is an English
television, theatre and film actress.
. She then attended the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
in London.
from 2001 to 2003. She has also had roles in The Bill
, Gimme Gimme Gimme, According to Bex
, Dalziel and Pascoe
and Doctors.
Her theatre roles include: Top Girls; Clubbed Out; Lets Go to the Fair; Hansel & Gretel; One Night; D'yer Eat with your Fingers; Romeo & Juliet. She also played the role of Meena Khan in the original cast of East is East
by Ayub Khan-Din
. It was produced by the Tamasha Theatre Company
at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1996. She reprised the role alongside many of the stage cast in the film version of the play East Is East
(1999) and the upcoming sequel West Is West
(2010).
She has starred in the following low-budget films: Final Curtain, Esther Khans, Janice Beard 45wpm and Large.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
television, theatre and film actress.
Background
Zita was born in 1975 in Birmingham, England. She is of mixed heritage, her mum is British and her dad Pakistani. At aged 11, as a young amateur actress, Zita was one of the founder members of Birmingham's Central Junior Television WorkshopCentral Junior Television Workshop
The Central Junior Television Workshop is a British organization that offers free training for young people in performance skills for television, film, radio and theatre...
. She then attended the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
Rose Bruford College
Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance is a British drama school, offering university-level and professional vocational training for theatre and performance and the BA and MA degrees, based in Sidcup, Southeast London.-History:Founded in 1950, Rose Bruford "pioneered the first acting degree...
in London.
Career
Zita is best known for playing Anna Paul in CasualtyCasualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
from 2001 to 2003. She has also had roles in The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
, Gimme Gimme Gimme, According to Bex
According to Bex
According to Bex is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2005. Starring Jessica Stevenson, it was written by Katie Douglas, Julia Barron and Fred Barron, who also created My Family and After You've Gone...
, Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
and Doctors.
Her theatre roles include: Top Girls; Clubbed Out; Lets Go to the Fair; Hansel & Gretel; One Night; D'yer Eat with your Fingers; Romeo & Juliet. She also played the role of Meena Khan in the original cast of East is East
East is East (play)
East is East is a play by Ayub Khan-Din, first produced by Tamasha Theatre Company in co-production with the Royal Court and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. It is often cited as one of the key works to bring Asian culture to mainstream British audiences...
by Ayub Khan-Din
Ayub Khan-Din
Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright.As an actor, Khan-Din participated in some 20 British films and TV series in the late 1980s and the 1990s...
. It was produced by the Tamasha Theatre Company
Tamasha Theatre Company
Tamasha is a British theatre company founded in 1989 by director Kristine Landon-Smith and actor / writer Sudha Bhuchar with a mission to bring contemporary drama of Asian influence to the British stage....
at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1996. She reprised the role alongside many of the stage cast in the film version of the play East Is East
East is East (film)
East Is East is a 1999 British black comedy/drama film, written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a British Pakistani father and an English mother in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971...
(1999) and the upcoming sequel West Is West
West Is West (2010 film)
West Is West is a 2011 British comedy-drama film, which is a sequel to the 1999 comedy East Is East. It stars Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ila Arun and Jimi Mistry, is written by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Andy DeEmmony, and produced by Leslee Udwin for Assassin Films and BBC Films.The film...
(2010).
She has starred in the following low-budget films: Final Curtain, Esther Khans, Janice Beard 45wpm and Large.