Nina Wadia OBE is an award winning actress renowned for her timeless sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, as well as her role as Zainab Masood in BBC One’s Eastenders for which she won ‘Best Comedy Performance’ and ‘Best Onscreen Partnership’ at the British Soap Awards.  

Recent television credits include the hit Netflix series Sandman, based on the Neil Gaiman novels, Count Abdulla for ITVX, as well as series 2 of The Hitmen, Stephen Merchant’s BBC One/Amazon Prime series, The Outlaws, ITV’s Midsomer Murders, Tweedy & Fluff for Channel 5’s Milkshake and CBBC’s Danny & Mick. Nina also starred in Too Close for ITV, Death In Paradise, Channel 4/Hulu  series MAXXX, Still Open All Hours with David Jason for BBC One, YouTube Original series Origin, Newark Newark, Murder On The Blackpool Express and BBC’s Holby City. 

Nina began her career in theatre, and has starred in a variety of productions including Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End, the Tony award winning The Vagina Monologues, Macbeth alongside Mark Rylance & Michael Frayn’s Matchbox Theatre at Hampstead Theatre. 

On the big screen, Nina’s credits include Code 46 with Tim Robbins, Sixth Happiness, Bend It Like Beckham, I Can’t Think Straight, Bollywood hit Namaste London, Strangeways Here We Come and Four, currently on Netflix, which she also exec produced. Nina starred opposite Will Smith in Disney favourite Aladdin, A Streetcat Named Bob with Luke Treadaway, and the sequel to the movie, A Gift From Bob. She can also currently be seen in the movies, Repeat, The Stranger in our Bed and Followers. 

She has hosted The One Show, The Wright Stuff, Remembrance Day Ceremonies alongside Sir Michael Palin and has been a regular presenter on BBC’s Sunday Morning Live. 

She is about to embark on her first national musical tour starring in the brand new ‘Now! That’s What I Call A Musical’ based on the Now That’s What I Call Music CD’s, directed by Craig Revel-Horwood.