She is best known for her roles as Constable Maggie Habib in The Thin Blue Line and Gita Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Anwar played Police Constable Maggie Habib in the TV sitcom The Thin Blue Line, first shown on BBC 1 from 1995 to 1996.

Other roles include the recurring part of Sandra Malik in The Bill in 2003, Sister Zita Khan in Doctors and Nurses and Selena Sharp in Scoop.

She starred in The Infidel as Muna, and portrayed Trudy Rehmann in the Nickelodeon series House of Anubis.

She has appeared in a number of BBC TV dramas and sitcoms, such as The Wright Way, in which she plays the only female health-and-safety officer, Malika Maha,[2] and in an episode of Upstart Crow where she portrayed one of the three witches from Macbeth.