Nina Wadia is a British actress and comedian who was born on December 18, 1968. She is well-known for her roles as Mrs. Hussein in the BBC sitcom Still Open All Hours, Zainab Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and as the star of the BBC sketch program Goodness Gracious Me. Wadia also acted in the 2007 Hindi-language romance comedy Namaste London. In 2018, she also made an appearance in the series Origin.
Where did Nina Wadia go to college and high school? Did Nina Wadia go to film school?
Both Notting Hill and Ealing High School were attended by Nina Wadia. Wadia relocated to Hong Kong when she was nine years old and enrolled at Island School, Hong Kong.
Wadia first gained notoriety for her roles as Mrs. “I can make it at home for nothing!” and one-half of The Competitive Mothers in the BBC comic series Goodness Gracious Me. In the sitcom All About Me, she replaced her Goodness Gracious Me co-star Meera Syal in the character of Rupinder opposite Jasper Carrott and Natalia Kills. In the enduring BBC soap series EastEnders in 2007, Wadia was cast in the role of Zainab Masood. On February 8, 2013, she made her final EastEnders appearance as Zainab. She also had a little part in EastEnders in 1994 as Viv, a nurse who cared for Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) when she was being treated for a gunshot wound in the hospital.
