Archana Panjabi was born on 31 May 1972 and is a British actress.
26 Facts About Archie Panjabi
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Archie Panjabi is the first Asian actor to win a Primetime Emmy for acting.
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Archie Panjabi was born in Edgware, London, to Govind and Padma Archie Panjabi, both Sindhi Hindu immigrants from India.
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Archie Panjabi's ancestry belongs to Sindh, now in Pakistan; her parents settled in India after the Partition of India.
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Archie Panjabi graduated from Brunel University with a degree in management studies in 1994.
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Archie Panjabi has appeared in film and television, from early appearances in the 1999 comedy film East is East to the BBC television series Life on Mars.
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Archie Panjabi 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.
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Archie Panjabi next appeared in 2007 with Angelina Jolie in the film adaptation of A Mighty Heart, a book by Mariane Pearl, wife of the journalist Daniel Pearl.
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Archie Panjabi played the role of former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani.
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Archie Panjabi provided the voices for several characters in the British children's television animation Postman Pat.
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Archie Panjabi lent her voice to the video game Dead Space: Extraction.
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Archie 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.
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Archie Panjabi is the first actor of Indian descent to win an Emmy award.
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Archie Panjabi appeared as Blaise in the BBC World Service radio series Westway.
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Archie Panjabi starred as Reece Shearsmith's third love interest, in the ITV drama The Widower, first aired in August 2019.
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Archie Panjabi started on TNT's drama Snowpiercer in Season three in 2022.
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In May 2021, Archie Panjabi voiced Depa Billaba in the series premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch,.
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Archie Panjabi was appointed the first Pratham USA Ambassador, representing the largest educational movement in India.
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Archie Panjabi is a celebrity participant in the Rotary International's "This Close" public service campaign to end polio.
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On 9 February 2011, Archie Panjabi walked in The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show to increase awareness of the danger of heart disease, the number one killer of women.
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The Harvard Foundation and Office for the Arts at Harvard University invited Archie Panjabi to participate in their Artist in Residence Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to share her creative process as an actress.
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Archie Panjabi was awarded the Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
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Archie Panjabi was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The Good Wife, winning in 2010.
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Archie Panjabi won an NAACP Image Award in 2011 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the same role.
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Archie Panjabi was nominated for three SAG Awards with her co-stars of The Good Wife for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
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Archie Panjabi married Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor, at the age of 26.