Archie Panjabi Bio | Wiki
Archie Panjabi is a British actress. She has had various roles in both UK and United States television including as Maya Roy in Life on Mars from 2006 to 2007. Archie also played Nas Kamal in the NBC crime drama Blindspot, Kendra Malley in the Global TV drama Departure, & Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife.
She is the first Asian actor to win a Primetime Emmy for acting. Additional notable roles include Meenah Khan in East Is East, Pinky Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckham, Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin, and Asra Nomani in A Mighty Heart.
Archie Panjabi Age
Archie was born on May 31, 1972, in Edgware, United Kingdom. She is 50 years old.
Archie Panjabi Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 3 in (Approx.1.6 m).
Archie Panjabi Family
She was born in Edgware, London to her parents Govind and Padma Panjabi. Both Archie’s parents are Sindhi Hindu immigrants from India and were schoolteachers. Her ancestry belongs to Sindh, now in Pakistan; her parents settled in India after the Partition of India. She has a sibling named Ashwin.
Archie Panjabi Husband
Archie is married to her husband Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor. The couple celebrated their wedding in 1998 when Archie was 26 years old. It was an arranged marriage between their parents and has remained married ever since.
Archie Panjabi Education
She graduated from Brunel University with a degree in management studies in 1994. Archie is also classically trained in ballet. She was 26 when she played the 14-year-old Meenah Khan in East Is East (1999).
Archie Panjabi Movies And Tv Shows
2018 Next of Kin
2019–present Departure
2019 Still Open All Hours
2020 Run
2020 I Know This Much Is True
2021 Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2022 Snowpiercer
TBA Hijack
2009 Espion(s)
2009 Be Good
2010 The Infidel
2010 The Happiness
2013 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
2014 I Origins
2015 San Andreas
Archie Panjabi The Good Wife
Archie joined the cast of the new CBS television series The Good Wife as Kalinda Sharma in 2008. She won a Primetime Emmy Award. She is the first actor of Indian descent to win an Emmy award. After leaving The Good Wife in 2015, she guest starred in the Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She joined the cast of Shetland series 3.
Archie Panjabi In Bend It Like Beckham
One of Archie’s highest-profile film roles was as Pinky Bhamra in the 2002 comedy release Bend It Like Beckham, a 2002 sports comedy-drama film. It was directed by Gurinder Chadha from a screenplay by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, and Guljit Bindra. Archie then landed the role of witty and wisecracking office colleague Gemma in the 2006 Ridley Scott-directed romantic comedy A Good Year, alongside Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.
Archie Panjabi Snowpiercer
She started on TNT’s drama Snowpiercer in Season 3 in 2022. Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television series that premiered on TNT on May 17, 2020. It is based on both the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige.
Archie Panjabi Shetland
In 2016, she played Detective Sergeant Asha Israni in Shetland series 3, a Scottish crime drama series made by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland and first broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013. Based upon the novels of Ann Cleeves and adapted for television by David Kane, it stars Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Pérez.
Archie Panjabi Blindspot
Archie joined as Nas Kamal in the cast of NBC drama Blindspot, an American crime drama television series. It was created by Martin Gero, about a mysterious, heavily tattooed woman with no recollection of her past or identity. It stars Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander. Rob Brown, Audrey Esparza, Ashley Johnson, Ukweli Roach, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste co-star.
Archie Panjabi Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Archie’s estimated net worth is $3 million.
What Is Archie Panjabi Doing Now
She plays Zahra Gahfoor in the Upcoming miniseries Hijack. In 2021, she played the voice of Depa Billaba in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
Is Archie Panjabi Married
Yes. Archie is married to her husband Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor. The couple celebrated their wedding in 1998 when Archie was 26 years old.