Zita Sattar
Born: 1975-02-20 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Until I Kill You as DC Ruth Croft
2023
- Phoenix Rise as Miss Abel
2021
- The Cleaner as Ruth Edwards
2020
- I Hate Suzie as Nadia
2019
- Responsible Child as Sam Delaney
- Years and Years as Yvonne Bukhari
2017
- The Worst Witch as Mrs Maria Tapioca
- Creeped Out as Hannah
2016
- Flowers as Barbara
2015
- Derek Special as Cath
2013
- Father Brown as Mavis Jug
- Another Me as Mira
2012
- Call the Midwife as Josie Smith
2010
2009
- Mad Sad & Bad as Kirsty
2005
2001
- Large as Kylie
1999
- Janice Beard 45 WPM as Jane
1998
1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- The Bill: Target as W.D.C. Watson
1995
1986
- Casualty as Anna Paul