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
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.
dog children married
I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
fashion nice hair
At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!
writing color people
When I started out in the '90s, there were not many people of color writing, directing and producing - hence, the roles for people of color were few and far between. There's still few roles in England [where she's from].
careers black acting
I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
believe play long
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.