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Born:
1975-02-20

Birthplace:
Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Credits:
24 Total Roles

Zita Sattar

Acting

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Biography

Zita Sattar (born 1975) is an English television, theatre, and film actress from Birmingham. Sattar is of mixed descent, her mother being British and her father Pakistani. At the age of eleven, as a young amateur actress, Sattar was one of the founding members of Birmingham's Central Junior Television Workshop. She then attended the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance in London.

Sattar is best known for playing Anna Paul in Casualty from 2001 to 2003. She has also had roles in The Bill, Gimme Gimme Gimme, According to Bex, Dalziel and Pascoe, Doctors, and Flowers.

Her theatre roles include: Top Girls, Clubbed Out, Let's Go to the Fair, Hansel and Gretel, One Night, D'yer Eat with your Fingers, and Romeo and Juliet. She also played the role of Meenah 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. Although she did not reprise the role in the film version of the play (1999), she did appear as new character Neelam Haqq in the sequel West Is West (2010).[2] She has starred in the following low-budget films: The Final Curtain, Esther Kahn, Janice Beard 45wpm, and Large.

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2024 Until I Kill You TV DC Ruth Croft
2023 Phoenix Rise TV Miss Abel
2021 The Cleaner TV Ruth Edwards
2020 I Hate Suzie TV Nadia
2019 Responsible Child MOVIE Sam Delaney
2019 Years and Years TV Yvonne Bukhari
2017 Creeped Out TV Hannah
2017 The Worst Witch TV Mrs Maria Tapioca
2016 Flowers TV Barbara
2015 Derek Special MOVIE Cath

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