---
name: "Harvey Virdi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harvey-virdi"
fi1m_id: "harvey-virdi"
imdb_id: "nm1168317"
tmdb_id: 75067
wikidata_id: "Q5677646"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-10T18:46:03.497650+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harvey Virdi

## Identity

Harvey Virdi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harvey-virdi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harvey-virdi
- **IMDb ID:** nm1168317
- **TMDB ID:** 75067
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5677646
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Virdi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5677646, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1168317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/75067

Actor. Born in Nairobi.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2002–2007
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 63 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Romance 2, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $77m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Virdi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5677646, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1168317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/75067

## Biography

Harvey Virdi is a British actress of Indian descent. She trained at the Academy Drama School in London and began her career in 1994 with a touring production for the Soap Box Theatre Company.

Her stage work includes productions at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre. Film credits include *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), *Thunderbirds* (2004), *Venus* (2006) and *Brick Lane* (2007) as Razia. On television she has played Nina Mandal in *Coronation Street*, Mrs Malik in *Citizen Khan* and Dr Misbah Maalik in *Hollyoaks* since 2017.

In 2024 she received the Sophiya Haque Services to British TV, Film & Theatre Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, greatbritishlife.co.uk, asianmediaawards.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Brick Lane* (2007), Fi1m 64, as Razia — [page](https://film.one/film/brick-lane.md)
- *Venus* (2006), Fi1m 72, as Art School Teacher — [page](https://film.one/film/venus.md)
- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Fi1m 76, as Teetu's Mum — [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lies We Tell* (2018), as Banu
- *Class Dismissed* (2016), series, as Miss Spray • Mrs. Haqvinder • Miss Crampon
- *Stan Lee's Lucky Man* (2016), series, as Shefali Malhotra
- *Honour* (2014), as Mother
- *Jadoo* (2013), as Leelu Chandana
- *Italian Movies* (2013), as Wife
- *Doctor Faustus* (2010), as Vintner/Envy/Paramour
- *The School for Scandal* (2010), as Mrs Candour
- *Volpone* (2010), as Androgyno/Avvocato
- *It's a Wonderful Afterlife* (2010), as Overbearing Mother
- *No Honour No Choice* (2009), as Mother
- *The Blue Tower* (2008), as Minnie
- *Brick Lane* (2007), as Razia — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/brick-lane.md)
- *Britz* (2007), as Kaneez
- *Britz* (2007), series, as Kaneez
- *Not Going Out* (2006), series, as Counsellor
- *Venus* (2006), as Art School Teacher — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/venus.md)
- *Cherished* (2005), as Woman Doctor
- *Whose Baby?* (2004), as Solicitor
- *Thunderbirds* (2004), as Onaha
- *Hear the Silence* (2003), as Dr. Ash's receptionist
- *The House Across The Street* (2002), as Sanjana
- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), as Teetu's Mum — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)
- *Murphy's Law* (2001), series, as Isha Iqbal — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/murphys-law.md)
- *Guru in Seven* (1998), as Amarjeet
- *Hollyoaks* (1995), series, as Misbah Maalik

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