Zita Sattar

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.

Most Known For

Father Brown

as Mavis Jug

Call the Midwife

as Josie Smith

Casualty

as Anna Paul

The Worst Witch

as Mrs Maria Tapioca

Dalziel & Pascoe

Years and Years

as Yvonne Bukhari

I Hate Suzie

as Nadia

Creeped Out

as Hannah

The Cleaner

as Ruth Edwards

Flowers

as Barbara

Until I Kill You

as DC Ruth Croft

Phoenix Rise

as Miss Abel

Backup

Heartburn Hotel

Responsible Child

as Sam Delaney

Another Me

as Mira

According to Bex

Mad Sad & Bad

as Kirsty

West Is West

Janice Beard 45 WPM

as Jane