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Birth name Souad Faress

Souad Faress is a Ghanaian stage, radio, television and film actress. She is now best known within the United Kingdom for her portrayal of the solicitor Usha Gupta, in the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers.

Biography

A Ghanaian Arab, Faress was born in Ghana to Irish and Syrian parents, she appeared in two episodes of the BBC serial I, Claudius (1976) as a slave girl (shouting fire) and as a dancer who at Messalina's (second and bigamous) marriage party realises troops are coming to arrest them. In another early BBC appearance, she played the character Selma in the Blake's 7 episode 'Horizon'. Since then, Faress has had substantial roles in films such as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Sixth Happiness (1997), as well as much stage work around the UK.

In October 2001 she appeared briefly in Coronation Street as Dev Alahan's mother Umila.

She has been exploring playwriting as a medium since before 2004.

Souad Faress also appeared as the Old Rani in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Mad Woman in the Attic in October 2009.

She currently plays Jay Faldren's grandmother Maryam Shakiba in Casualty.

Faress appeared in an episode of popular nursing drama No Angels as lead character, Anji Mittel's aunt Di. Faress appeared briefly as a hospital doctor in "The Dead of Jericho", the first episode of Morse.

In 2016 she will join the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6.

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Filmography of Souad Faress (3 films)

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Actress

Bhaji on the Beach, 1h41
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Akbar Kurtha, Shaheen Khan, Zohra Sehgal, Rudolph Walker
Roles Rekha
Rating63% 3.191473.191473.191473.191473.19147
A community group of British women (mostly Punjabis of various faiths) of all generations from Great Britain, take a group day out to the Blackpool Illuminations. The tensions of the generation gap torn between tradition and modernism as well as the personal upsets and issues of the women and girls come to boiling point as they spend the day out.
My Beautiful Laundrette, 1h33
Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, La précarité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Souad Faress, Shirley Anne Field
Roles Cherry N. Ali
Rating67% 3.3991353.3991353.3991353.3991353.399135
Omar Ali is a young man living in Battersea in the Wandsworth area of South London, right by the railway station during the mid-1980s. His father, Hussein, once a famous left-wing British Pakistani journalist in Bombay, lives in London but hates Britain's society and its international politics. His dissatisfaction with the world and a family tragedy have led him to sink into alcoholism, so that Omar has to be his carer. By contrast, Omar's paternal uncle Nasser is a successful entrepreneur and an active member of the London Pakistani community. Omar's father asks his uncle to give Omar a job and, after working for a brief time as a car washer in one of his uncle's garages, he is assigned the task of managing a run-down laundrette and turning it into a profitable business.