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Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
31 May
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageArchie Panjabi
Biography
Archana Panjabi is a British actress. She has had various roles in both UK and US television including as Maya Roy in Life on Mars (2006–07), Nas Kamal in Blindspot (2016–17, 2020), Kendra Malley in Departure (2019–present), and Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife (2009–15).
Her work in the latter earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 and an NAACP Image Award in 2012, as well as two further Emmy nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations shared with the cast.
Panjabi is the first Asian actor to win a Primetime Emmy for acting. Other notable roles include Meenah Khan in East Is East (1999), Pinky Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin (2004), and Asra Nomani in A Mighty Heart (2007).
In 2016, it was announced that she would star in the ABC anthology drama series The Jury as the show's protagonist, Kim Dempsey. She also joined the cast of the NBC drama Blindspot.
In May 2021, Panjabi voiced Depa Billaba in the series premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
