Archie Panjabi
Birth name	Archana Kaur Panjabi
Born	1973 London, United Kingdom

Archie Panjabi (Punjabi: ਅਰਚਨਾ ਕੌਰ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, Arcan� Kaur Pañj�bī, born 1973) is a British actress.

Biography

Personal life

Panjabi was born Archana Kaur Panjabi in West London. She is a Sikh of Punjabi descent. She graduated from Brunel University in West London, with a degree in Management Studies in 1996.[1]

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 as a British diplomat in the Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener in 2005, although one of her most high-profile roles was in the 2002 comedy release Bend It Like Beckham. In 2005 she won the Shooting Star Award for her role in Yasmin at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Best Actress award in the same year at the Reims Film Festival.

In 2007, Panjabi appeared with Angelina Jolie in the movie adaptation of A Mighty Heart, a book by Mariane Pearl, widow of the journalist Daniel Pearl, playing the role of former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani. Her performance earned her The Chopard Trophy for a Breakout Performance at the Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

• A Mighty Heart (2007) - Asra Nomani
• Life on Mars (2006-07) - Maya
• A Good Year (2006) - Gemma
• The Constant Gardener (2005) - Ghita Pearson
• Sea of Souls (2004) - Megan Sharma
• Yasmin (2004) - Yasmin
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002) - Pinky Bhamra
• East is East (1999) - Meenah Khan

References

External links

• Archie Panjabi at the Internet Movie Database
• A review of Yasmin.
• Brunel University alumni magazine (Panjabi appears on page 16).
• Indian ethnicity helped: Archie Hindustan Times - June 23, 2007