Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi
biography
Name                Archana Punjabi
Birth date           May 31, 1972
Birth place          Edgware, London, England,
Occupation        Actress
Years active       1995-present


Archana "Archie" Panjabi  is an Emmy Award-winning British actress recognized for her roles in the 1999 film East is East, the 2002 comedy film Bend It Like Beckham and as Kalinda Sharma on the current CBS television series The Good Wife.

Career

Panjabi has taken acting roles in both film and television, from early appearances in the 1999 comedy film East is East to the recent BBC television series Life on Mars. Her first Hollywood role was in 2005 as a British diplomat in the Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener in 2005; one of her most high-profile roles was in the 2002 comedy release Bend It Like Beckham.
In 2007, Panjabi appeared with Angelina Jolie in the movie adaptation of A Mighty Heart, a book by Mariane Pearl, wife of the journalist Daniel Pearl, playing the role of former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani.
Panjabi has also provided the voices for several characters in the British children's television animation Postman Pat.
Panjabi lent 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 such as The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Christopher Eccleston.

In 2009 she portrayed an MI5 agent in the French movie Espion(s), and in the same year she joined the cast of the new television series The Good Wife as Kalinda Sharma. Her most recent film role is as Saamiya Nasir in the British comedy The Infidel.

Awards

Her performance in A Mighty Heart earned her The Chopard Trophy for a Breakout Performance at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, she won the Shooting Star Award for her role as the title character in Yasmin at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Best Actress award in the same year at the Reims Film Festival.
On August 29, 2010, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife.

Awards

Her performance in A Mighty Heart earned her The Chopard Trophy for a Breakout Performance at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, she won the Shooting Star Award for her role as the title character in Yasmin at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Best Actress award in the same year at the Reims Film Festival.

On 29 August 2010, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife.
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