Nina Wadia
| Nina Wadia | |
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Nina Wadia in 2012
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Nina Wadia 18 December 1968 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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| Years active | 1991–present |
| Television |
EastEnders Goodness Gracious Me Loose Women Still Open All Hours Citizen Khan |
| Spouse(s) | Raiomond Mirza (m. 1998) |
| Children | 2 |
Nina Wadia (born 18 December 1968) is an Indian-born British actress, known for playing Zainab Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Miss Hussein in the Open All Hours spin-off Still Open All Hours, and for starring in the hit BBC Two sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
Wadia was born in Bombay, India, in 1968 and is of Parsi ancestry. She has an older brother and older sister. Her parents have died. When she was nine, she moved to Hong Kong.
Wadia first came to prominence in BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, playing characters such as Mrs "I can make it at home for nothing!" and one half of The Competitive Mothers. She took over from her Goodness Gracious Me co-star, Meera Syal, in the role of Rupinder in the sitcom All About Me alongside Jasper Carrott and Natalia Kills. In 2007, Wadia was cast as Zainab Masood in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. Her last appearance as Zainab in EastEnders was on 8 February 2013. She also had a minor role in EastEnders in 1994, playing a nurse named Viv who treated Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) when she was hospitalised with a gunshot wound. She also appears as Zainab in the 2010 spin-off EastEnders: E20.
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