Archie Panjabi
Archie Panjabi was born in Edgware, England, United Kingdom on May 31st, 1972 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 51, Archie Panjabi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Archana Panjabi (born 31 May 1972) is a British actress best known for her role on The Good Wife as Kalinda Sharma.
Her appearance earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 and a National Guard Academy nomination in 2012, as well as two additional Emmy nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and three separate Screen Actor Guild Award nominations shared with the cast.
Meenah Khan in East is East (1999), Pinky Bhamra (2002), Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin (2005), and Asra Nomani in A Mighty Heart (2006).
Early life
Panjabi was born in Edgware, London, to Govind and Padma Panjabi, both Sindhi Hindu immigrants from India. Her ancestry is traced to Sindh, Pakistan; her parents immigrated in India after the Partition of India. In 1994, she graduated from Brunel University with a degree in management. She has also been classically trained in ballet.
Personal life
At the age of 26, Panjabi married Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor.
Career
Panjabi has appeared on film and television, from early appearances in the 1999 comedy film East is East to the BBC television series Life on Mars. In 2005, she became a British diplomat in The Constant Gardener, her first Hollywood role. Bend It Like Beckham, one of her most well-known film roles, appeared in the 2002 comedy film Bend It Like Beckham. Panjabi then landed the role of witty and wisecracking office colleague Gemma in Russell Crowe's 2006 Ridley Scott-directed romantic comedy A Good Year.
Panjabi appeared in 2007 with Angelina Jolie in the film version of A Mighty Heart, a book by Mariane Pearl, wife of journalist Daniel Pearl. Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, played Panjabi. She appeared in Traitor as Chandra Dawkin.
In the British children's television cartoon animation Postman Pat, she narrated several characters. Extraction: She gave her voice to the video game Dead Space: Extraction. Panjabi appeared on the BBC Four World Cinema Award show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits including The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Christopher Eccleston. In 2009, she played an MI5 agent in the French film Espion(s), and in the same year, she appeared in The Good Wife's cast as Kalinda Sharma, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award. Panjabi is the first Indian descent actor to receive an Emmy award.
In 2010, she appeared in The Infidel, a British comedy. Tanya Reed Smith, a pathologist, was featured in BBC Two drama series The Fall on May 28th. Panjabi appeared in the BBC World Service radio series Westway as Blaise. She appeared in Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine after leaving The Good Wife in 2015. She was a member of Shetland's 3rd cast member.
Kim Dempsey, the show's protagonist, was confirmed in 2016 that she will appear in ABC anthology drama series The Jury as the show's protagonist. She has also appeared in the cast of NBC's Blindspot.
Panjabi wrote in The Daily Telegraph in December 2017 on the increase in parts for actors from ethnic groups "I think there's certainly been an acknowledgment of there being a lack of diversity." In an interview with The Guardian in February 2018, Panjabi recalled, "An agent told me an Indian woman could never have a Hollywood career." In the ITV drama The Widower first premiered in August 2019, Reece Shearsmith's third love interest appeared. In 2022, she began watching Snowpiercer on TNT's drama Snowpiercer.