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b. 1966
Born in Oldham, Shobna Gulati, 59, studied Arabic and Middle Eastern politics at the University of Manchester. She appeared in Dinnerladies before taking a long-running role in Coronation Street in 2001. Her stage work includes the National Theatre’s A Tupperware of Ashes, and she played Ray in UK and US productions of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and the 2021 film version. In 2020, she published Remember Me? Discovering My Mother As She Lost Her Memory. Gulati has a son and is based in London where she is appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Noël Coward theatre until 10 January.
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In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
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That I don’t give myself enough credit.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
Ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
I tried my best.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
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