Shobu Kapoor

Biography

Shobu Kapoor (born 28 May 1961) is a British actress of Indian descent. She is most notable for playing the role of Gita Kapoor, the long-suffering wife of market trader Sanjay (Deepak Verma), in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1993 to 1998. After leaving EastEnders, Kapoor appeared in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham and the TV series The Bill (2004). She has also been in Chicken TikkaMasala (2005), Casualty (2005) and Doctors, where she appeared as five characters between 2000 and 2016.

Known For

Doctor Who

as Scared Woman

Bridgerton

as Lady Sheffield

Bend It Like Beckham

as Polly

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

as Additional Voices (voice)

A Discovery of Witches

as Linda Cosby

Krypton

as Mama Zed

Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj

as Taj's Mother

EastEnders

as Gita Kapoor

Polite Society

as Fatima

The Infidel

as Kashmina