Zita Sattar
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.
Acting
TV
Years and Years
as Yvonne Bukhari
2019
Movie
Another Me
as Mira
2013
TV
Call the Midwife
as Josie Smith
2012
TV
The Worst Witch
as Mrs Maria Tapioca
2017
TV
Father Brown
as Mavis Jug
2013
TV
Creeped Out
as Hannah
2017
TV
Flowers
as Barbara
2016
TV
Casualty
as Anna Paul
1986
TV
The Cleaner
as Ruth Edwards
2021
Movie
West Is West
2010
TV
Until I Kill You
as DC Ruth Croft
2024
TV
I Hate Suzie
as Nadia
2020
TV
Gimme Gimme Gimme
as Soltana
1999
Movie
Responsible Child
as Sam Delaney
2019
Movie
Derek Special
as Cath
2015
Movie
Mad Sad & Bad
as Kirsty
2009
Movie
The Final Curtain
2002
Movie
Large
as Kylie
2001
Movie
Janice Beard 45 WPM
as Jane
1999
TV
Heartburn Hotel
1998
TV
Backup
1995
TV
Phoenix Rise
as Miss Abel
2023
According to Bex
2005
Movie
The Bill: Target
as W.D.C. Watson
1996