Mina Anwar | |
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Born |
Church, Lancashire, England |
20 September 1969
Mina Anwar (born 20 September 1969) is an English actress.
Anwar 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.
She played Police Constable Maggie Habib in the situation comedy The Thin Blue Line which was shown on BBC 1 from 1995 to 1996.
Other roles include the recurring part of Dr. 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. She also appeared as a supporting character in children's sci-fi drama The Sarah Jane Adventures, in which she played Gita Chandra, the mother of character Rani Chandra between its second and fifth series. 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. In addition, she has made an appearance in No Angels.