Jamila Massey

Jamila Massey is a British actress and writer. Massey has had a long career on UK television and radio. She is known for playing Auntie Satya in the long-running radio soap The Archers, Jamila Ranjha in Mind Your Language, and Neelam Kapoor in EastEnders. Massey came to Britain with her parents in 1946 at th+e age of 12.

Her father fought in the Second World War, but remained in the UK and became a producer for the BBC. She was born on 7 January 1934 (age 84) in Simla, British Punjab, India . As a child, Massey acted for the BBC in radio children's programmes. She attended King's College London and graduated in Latin, Urdu and English. Her father fought in the Second World War, but remained in the UK and became a producer for the BBC.

As well as acting, Massey has also co-authored several books with her husband, writer Reginald Massey. One was a novel, The Immigrants, based on field research among first-generation Asians in Britain. The other books were The Music of India, for which Ravi Shankar provided a foreword, and The Dances of India.