Mina Anwar

Mina Mumtaz Anwar (born 20 September 1969) is a British actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Constable Maggie Habib in The Thin Blue Line, and Gita Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Mina Anwar
Anwar in 2011
Born	Mina Mumtaz Anwar (1969-09-20) 20 September 1969 (age 53) Church, Lancashire, England
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Years active	1995–present

Early life

Anwar was born in Church, Lancashire in 1969. She was educated at Accrington Moorhead High School, and gained an A level in Theatre in Performance at the Accrington and Rossendale College in 1988 before training at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

Acting career

She played Police Constable Maggie Habib in the TV situation comedy The Thin Blue Line, first shown on BBC 1 from 1995 to 1996.

Other roles include the recurring part of Sandra Malik in The Bill in 2003, Sister Zita Khan in Doctors and Nurses and Selena Sharp in Scoop. She also performed as the storyteller in Razzledazzle on the CBeebies channel.

Anwar appeared in the Channel 4 drama Shameless, and as a supporting character in children's sci-fi drama The Sarah Jane Adventures,^[1] in which she played Gita Chandra, the mother of character Rani Chandra, from its second to fifth series.^[1] She was also in the BBC drama show The Invisibles. Anwar appeared in Coronation Street as the ex-wife of Dev Alahan, the corner-shop owner, and in No Angels.

She starred in The Infidel as the woman in the black burqa, and portrayed Trudy Rehmann in the Nickelodeon series House of Anubis. She has appeared in a number of BBC TV dramas and sitcoms, such as The Wright Way, in which she plays the only female health-and-safety officer, Malika Maha,^[2] and in an episode of Upstart Crow where she portrayed one of the three witches from Macbeth. She appeared in the 2014 dramas Happy Valley and In the Club and the ghost tale Remember Me. In 2014 she portrayed Lauren in The Beneficiary, episode 5 of series 6 of the BBC's series of 45-minute stand-alone dramas Moving On.

In 2017 she originated the role of Ray in the new musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and continued her role for the West End transfer.^[3]

Anwar appeared in Series 10 of Doctor Who in 2017.

In 2018 she played Miss Marigold Mould in Series 2 of The Worst Witch.

Other activities

Anwar is a classically trained mezzo soprano. She sings big band jazz and sings backing vocals on occasions for The Charlatans.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Maybe Baby	Yasmin
2010	The Infidel	Muna
2015	Sleeping Lions	Mrs. Ghosh	Short film
2018	An Admin Worker at the End of the World	Brenda	Short film
2020	Farewell, Sarah Jane	Gita Chandra	Short film
	The Understudy	Donna
	Stuart and Dumplings	Khadija	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	99-1	Dr. Resdale	Episode: "Stone"
1995 – 1996	The Thin Blue Line	W.P.C. Maggie Habib	14 episodes
1997	Flight	Shikha	TV film
1999	Barbara	Midwife	Episode: "Scattering"
	The Flint Street Nativity	Shamima / Angel	TV film
2000	A Christmas Carol	Julie	TV film
2001	I Love the 1980's	Herself	TV series documentary; 5 episodes
	I Love the 1990s	Herself	TV series documentary; 2 episodes
	Always and Everyone	Meera Kapoor	Episode: #3.13
2002	TV to Go	Various Roles	Episode: #2.1
	Casualty	Shelley	Episode: "Dominoes"
	Birthday Girl	Nina Kapoor	TV film
	Doctors	Maria	Episode: "Labour Day"
2003	The Bill	Dr. Sandra Malik	4 episodes
2004	Doctors and Nurses	Sister Zita Khan	6 episodes
	Best Friends	Miss Mancer	4 episodes
2005	Razzledazzle	Presenter	11 episodes
	ShakespeaRe-Told	Flute	Episode: " A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2005 - 2006	Coronation Street	Ravinder Kalirai	6 episodes
2005, 2016	Holby City	Saima 'Sam' Ahmed / Fay Michaels	2 episodes
2006	The Gil Mayo Mysteries	Tina Beaverstock	Episode: "A Species of Revenge"
	No Angels	Jeena	2 episodes
2008	Shameless	Auntie Shaza	Episode: "Old Friends, New Enemies"
	Love Soup	Antonia	Episode: "Sophisticated Lady"
	The Invisibles	Helen Huthwaite	6 episodes
2008 - 2011	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Gita Chandra	18 episodes
2009 - 2011	Scoop	Selena Sharp / Prosecutor	9 episodes
2010	A Passionate Woman	Mrs Patel	Episode: #1.2
2011 - 2013	House of Anubis	Trudy Rehman	106 episodes
2013	Anubis Unlocked	Herself	Episode: #2.7
	The Wright Way	Malika Maha	6 episodes
	The Slammer	Lydia	Episode: "Come Lie with Me"
2014	Happy Valley	Mrs. Mukherjee	3 episodes
	Rocket's Island	Kim Khalol	5 episodes
	Scott & Bailey	Eleanor Goodhead	2 episodes
	Moving On	Lauren	Episode: "The Beneficiary"
	Remember Me	Roshana Salim	2 episodes
2014 - 2016	In the Club	Amita	6 episodes
2015	Marley's Ghosts	Tina Jarvis	3 episodes
	Cuffs	Leila Kamal	Episode: #1.6
2016	The A Word	Dr. Waite	Episode: "Diagnosis"
	Upstart Crow	Weird Sister	Episode: "What Bloody Man Is That?"
	Damned	Catilin	Episode: #1.6
2016, 2019	Pointless Celebrities	Herself	2 episodes
2017	Doctor Who	Goodthing	Episode: "Smile"
2018	The Worst Witch	Miss Mould	10 episodes
2020	Terms & Conditions	Captain Rules	9 episodes
	When It Rains	Spa Owner	Episode: "Helpline"
2021	Moving On	Mrs Ellis	Episode: "Hungry to Learn"

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2023	Rani Takes On The World	Gita Chandra	Spin-off of The Sarah Jane Adventures

References

1. "Untitled section". Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Comics (395): 12. 28 May 2008.
2. "The Wright Way - Production Details". The British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
3. "Full cast announced for Everybody's Talking About Jamie". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

External links

• Mina Anwar at IMDb  
• Mina Anwar interview for TV to Go