Archie Panjabi
Archie Panjabi
Archana "Archie" Panjabi is a British actress, best known for her role as Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife. Her portrayal has 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. Her other notable roles include Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin, Pinky Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckhamand Asra Nomani in A Mighty...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth31 May 1972
ethnicity world sometimes
Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.
wife good-wife unpredictable
The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.
people asking way
You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
wife one-day gut-instinct
And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.
new-york short-life grateful
As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.
home creating meals
I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.
casting auditions weight
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
mother able teach
My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
giving people challenges
A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
littles taste east
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
new-york feet important
I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.
character interesting may
I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.
roles
I love roles where I have to transform myself.