Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi is an English actress whose work spans film and television. Her early screen appearances included East Is East (1999), and among her highest profile film roles was the comedy Bend It Like Beckham (2002). She played a British diplomat in The Constant Gardener (2005), her first part in a Hollywood production, and later appeared in A Good Year (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007) and Traitor (2008). On television she is known as Maya Roy in Life on Mars and as Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife, which brought her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010, an NAACP Image Award, two more Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe nomination and three shared Screen Actors Guild nominations; she became the first Asian performer to be honored with a Primetime Emmy for acting. Later television credits include Blindspot, Departure and Doctor Who.