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{{Short description|British actress}}
{{EngvarB|date=November 2018}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Parminder Nagra
| image = Parminder Nagra by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
| caption = Nagra at [[WonderCon]] in 2012
| birth_name = Parminder Kaur Nagra
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|10|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Leicester]], England
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1991–present
| spouse = {{marriage|James Stenson|2009|2013|reason=divorced}}
| children = 1
}}

'''Parminder Kaur Nagra''' (born 5 October 1975)<ref name="Parminder bio"/> is a British actress of [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] descent and [[Sikh]] heritage. She is known for portraying Jess Bhamra in the film ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'' (2002) and [[Neela Rasgotra|Dr. Neela Rasgotra]] in the [[NBC]] medical drama series ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'' from 2003 to 2009. She has had several other major television roles, including a starring role as Meera Malik in the NBC crime drama series ''[[The Blacklist]]'' for [[The Blacklist (season 1)|season one]] and a recurring role on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Marvel Television]] series ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'' as Ellen Nadeer for [[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 4)|season four]].

==Early life==
Nagra was born on 5 October 1975 in [[Leicester]], England, to Sukha and Nashuter Nagra, [[Sikh]] factory workers who emigrated from the [[Punjab]] region of [[India]] in the 1960s. She is the eldest of four children with two brothers and one sister.<ref name="Parminder bio">{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/parminder-nagra/biography.html|title=Parminder Nagra - Biography|publisher=[[Yahoo! Movies]]|access-date=14 May 2013}}</ref> Nagra attended the Northfield House Primary School in Leicester. At her comprehensive school, [[Soar Valley College]], she played the [[viola]] in the youth orchestra and also appeared in her first theatrical productions.

A few months after sitting her [[Advanced Level (UK)|A-levels]] and leaving school, Nagra was approached by Jez Simons, her former drama instructor, about becoming part of the Leicester-based theatre company Haithizi Productions, for which he served as the artistic director.<ref name="Spotlight"/> She accepted and was cast as a chorus member in the 1994 musical ''Nimai'' presented at the [[Haymarket Theatre (Leicester)|Haymarket Theatre]].<ref name="Parminder bio"/> Only a week into rehearsals, she was switched from the chorus to replace the lead actress, who had dropped out.<ref name="Parminder bio"/> Simons recalls that Nagra, a good singer and actress, also had a quality that raised her above other actresses which led him to select her as the new lead, despite the inconvenience of performing with her arm in a cast.<ref name="Spotlight">{{cite web|url=https://embraceyoumagazine.com/2010/12/21/spotlight-parminder-nagra/|title=Spotlight – Parminder Nagra|last=Morgan|first=Kai|work=EmbraceYouMagazine.com|date=21 December 2010|access-date=14 May 2013}}</ref>

==Career==

===1990s to early 2000s===
Nagra left Leicester for [[London]] and decided not to go to university. Instead she pursued a theatrical career and her childhood ambition of becoming an actress.<ref name="Parminder bio"/> Nagra's first London theatrical job came in 1994, when she was cast as the Princess in the pantomime ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]].<ref name="Parminder bio"/> After ''Sleeping Beauty'', Nagra worked with small Indian theatre companies such as Tara Arts and Tamasha. These roles eventually led to its radio and television appearances that defined her career throughout most of the 1990s. She also appeared in "The 6th Wonder of the World: The Kali Tutti Story", in 1994. In 1996, Nagra took a small part in [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]]'s ''Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards'' that was performed at Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre.

Despite lacking formal theatrical training, Nagra signed with Joan Brown, a veteran London-based agent,<ref name="A Celebration">{{cite web|url=http://www.darpanmagazine.com/2009/05/a-celebration-of-successes-with-parminder-nagra/|title=A Celebration of Successes With Parminder Nagra|work=DarpanMagazine.com|date=May 2009|access-date=14 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004234635/http://www.darpanmagazine.com/2009/05/a-celebration-of-successes-with-parminder-nagra/|archive-date=4 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> after which she was cast in minor television roles in the British medical drama series ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', and in the television film ''King Girl'', in which she played an abusive member of an all-girl gang. In 1997, Nagra appeared in the three-part drama ''Turning World'' alongside [[Roshan Seth]]. The following year, she appeared on ''Casualty'' again. In 1999, she played a convenience store clerk in the television film ''Donovan Quick'', opposite [[Colin Firth]]. Also of note were appearances on the British comedy ''[[Goodness Gracious Me (BBC)|Goodness Gracious Me]]''. Nagra also co-starred in radio plays including, among others, plays by [[Tanika Gupta]]. In 1998, Nagra co-starred in the radio play ''Dancing Girls of Lahore'' which was co-written by her future ''Bend It Like Beckham'' co-star [[Shaheen Khan (British actress)|Shaheen Khan]].

Nagra's other notable stage roles during this period include:

* ''Skeleton'' (1997), with critical acclaim for her "bright-eyed vivacity" as the village girl<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parmindernagraonline.com/page36.htm|title=Skeleton|last=Billington|first=Michael|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=4 June 1997|access-date=15 May 2013}}</ref>
* ''A Tainted Dawn'' (1997) where she played a [[Hindu]] boy accidentally left in [[Pakistan]] and brought up by a Muslim couple
* ''Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings & A Funeral'' (1998) where she showed her skills as a romantic comedian, also to critical acclaim<ref name="A Celebration"/>
* ''Krishna's Lila—A Play of the Asian World'' (1999) where she was part of a five-person cast in a controversially titled piece<ref name="Parminder bio"/>
* ''The Square Circle'' (1999) in the demanding role of an illiterate peasant girl who becomes a rape victim<ref name="Parminder bio"/>
* ''River on Fire'' (2000), as Kiran, in a retelling of [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]''

In 2001, Nagra voiced a Muslim girl in the docu-drama ''Arena: The Veil'' about women who choose to wear the Muslim head scarf. In 1997, not long after ''Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards'', Nagra was cast in ''Oh Sweet Sita'', an adaptation of Indian mythology about [[Rama]] and his wife [[Sita]], in the title role of Sita. During that time, Nagra caught the attention of director [[Gurinder Chadha]].<ref name="Parminder bio"/>

===''Bend It Like Beckham''===
Nagra played the lead role in Gurinder Chadha's 2002 comedy-drama ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'', which became her breakthrough film, alongside [[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]], [[Anupam Kher]], Shaheen Khan, and [[Keira Knightley]], for whom this film also became a career breakthrough. It was directed by Chadha. Nagra played Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra, a teenage Sikh football player who idolises football superstar [[David Beckham]] and defies her traditional parents to pursue her dreams of playing football. The small-budget film was a critical and financial success in the United Kingdom, eventually making the leap around the world and to Canada and the United States where it earned over $30 million at the box office. The script was written by Chadha with her husband [[Paul Mayeda Berges]] and Guljit Bindra with Nagra in mind. While initially indifferent to the game of [[Association football|football]], Nagra found the football-centred story to be both funny and touching. She agreed to audition and eventually accepted the role. An intensive ten-week training course in the game ''Futebol de Salao'', coached by [[Simon Clifford]], put Nagra through rigorous nine-hour-a-day workouts. Nagra learned to "bend" or curve the ball in flight, as she did in a scene in the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2003-04-07-parminder_x.htm|title=Parminder Nagra bends the rules for 'Beckham'|last=Puig|first=Claudia|work=[[USA Today]]|date=7 April 2003|access-date=15 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311133031/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2003-04-07-parminder_x.htm|archive-date=11 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Acknowledging Nagra's actual burn-scarred leg, Chadha wrote it into the film.

Nagra received critical and professional acclaim for her performance. She was nominated, and won, several awards, including the [[FIFA Presidential Award]] (2002), making her the first woman to have done so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developing/women/news/newsid=85811.html|title=Parminder Nagra: They chalked the side of my foot|work=[[FIFA]]|date=13 January 2003|access-date=21 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511084811/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developing/women/news/newsid=85811.html|archive-date=11 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2004–present===
Not long after filming ended on ''Bend It Like Beckham'', Nagra co-starred in the fantasy romantic comedy ''[[Ella Enchanted (film)|Ella Enchanted]]'' alongside [[Anne Hathaway]] where she played Areida, the best friend of Hathaway’s's title character.<ref name="A Celebration"/> In addition, she took on two notable television roles for [[Channel 4]]—as Viola/Cesario in a multicultural version of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', and as Heere Sharma in the two-part Anglo-Indian drama ''[[Second Generation (film)|Second Generation]]'', loosely based on Shakespeare's ''[[King Lear]]'', directed by [[Jon Sen]] and starring [[Om Puri]]. Although ''Second Generation'' was a ratings flop, it was a critical success, earning a place in ''[[The Observer]]'' newspaper's top 10 British TV programmes of 2003.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} It garnered Nagra an Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy (EMMA) Award.<ref name="A Celebration"/> For the role, Nagra had to gain the courage to do some of the love scenes that she had vowed not to do as an actress.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Her visit to [[Calcutta]] to film the final scenes set there was Nagra's first visit to India.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/aug/24/1|title=She shoots, she scores|last=Spencer|first=Neil|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 August 2003|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Jorge Garcia, Sarah Jones & Parminder Nagra by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|Nagra on a panel for the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] science fiction drama series ''Alcatraz'', along with fellow actors [[Jorge Garcia]] and [[Sarah Jones (screen actress)|Sarah Jones]]]]

While on a promotional junket in [[Los Angeles]] for ''Bend It Like Beckham'', Nagra was informed by her agent that [[John Wells (TV producer)|John Wells]], one of the producers of the [[NBC]] medical drama series ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'', was interested in meeting her.<ref name="A Celebration"/> ''Bend It Like Beckham'' writer and director Gurinder Chadha revealed during a 2007 episode of BBC's ''Movie Connections'' that she arranged the meeting, because she had recommended Nagra for the role of the new Indian character in ''ER'' during a conversation with her friend Wells.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Not long after the meeting, Nagra signed a one-year contract that included an option for three additional years. Despite her new status, Nagra said, "I don't think Hollywood has changed me at all. The first thing I did when I arrived was buy [[chapati]] flour and lentils."{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Nagra made her first appearance on ''ER'' on 25 September 2003, in the tenth-season premiere titled "Now What?" as [[Neela Rasgotra]], a new [[Yale University|Yale]]-educated Anglo-Indian medical student at County General Hospital. Wells adapted the role to suit Nagra, so she could use her own English accent while working. Nagra appeared in twenty-one of the season's twenty-two episodes, including the twelfth episode titled "NICU" and the seventeenth episode titled "The Student", episodes in which her character played a central role. [[Noah Wyle]], announcing his departure from the series in 2004, described Nagra as "the future" of ''ER'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2004-09-13|title=Movie & TV News 13 September 2004|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=8 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409034900/http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2004-09-13|archive-date=9 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and the media concurred, anointing her as one of the show's "golden girls".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/film/2007/09/05/brits-in-us-gallery/imgs/pirminda-nagra-8a.jpg|title=Parminder Nagra|work=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]]|access-date=15 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221958/http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=%2Ffilm%2F2007%2F09%2F05%2Fbrits-in-us-gallery%2Fimgs%2Fpirminda-nagra-8a.jpg|archive-date=4 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 2008, following the departures of [[Goran Visnjic]], [[Maura Tierney]], and [[Mekhi Phifer]], Nagra became the longest-serving cast member and lead actor of ''ER'' and remained so until the series concluded with season 15: episode 22, the two-hour series finale titled "[[And in the End...]]" which aired on 2 April 2009.

When Nagra finished filming the eleventh season of ''ER'' in 2005, she returned to her native Leicester to star in ''Love in Little India'' directed by Amit Gupta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parkentertainment.com/projects%20in%20development.htm|title=Projects in Development|work=Park Entertainment|access-date=8 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704052851/http://www.parkentertainment.com/projects%20in%20development.htm|archive-date=4 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was nominated in 2006 for an Asian Excellence Award, in the category of Outstanding Female Television Performance, for her work in ''ER'', and won the award the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.azntv.com/axawards/night_of_excellence/winners.aspx|title=Winners|work=AZN Television — Asian Excellence Awards|access-date=8 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501103042/http://www.azntv.com/axawards/night_of_excellence/winners.aspx|archive-date=1 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nagra was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctors of Letters by the [[University of Leicester]] on 11 July 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/people/honours-and-awards/2000-2009/2007/07/nparticle.2007-07-03.4947985110/?searchterm=Parminder%20Nagra|title=ER Star Receives University of Leicester Honour|access-date=9 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929182830/http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/people/honours-and-awards/2000-2009/2007/07/nparticle.2007-07-03.4947985110/?searchterm=Parminder%20Nagra|archive-date=29 September 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, Nagra voiced Cassandra in the [[DC Comics|DC]] animated film ''[[Batman: Gotham Knight]]''. Later, she co-starred as Dr Lucy Banerjee in the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] science fiction drama series ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'' which ran for one season from 16 January to 26 March 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/10/alcatraz-cancelled-by-fox|title=Alcatraz Cancelled by FOX|last=Goldman|first=Eric|work=[[IGN]]|date=9 May 2012|access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref> Nagra starred as CIA agent Meera Malik in the first season of the NBC crime drama series ''[[The Blacklist]]'' from 2013 to 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/2013/07/25/parminder-nagra-the-blacklist/|title='ER' actress joins 'The Blacklist' as series regular|last=Hibberd|first=James|work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=25 July 2013|access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref> In 2016, Nagra joined the second season of British arctic psychological thriller ''[[Fortitude (TV series)|Fortitude]]''. In 2018, Nagra joined the second season of the [[Netflix]] web television series ''[[13 Reasons Why]]'' as Priya Singh, the new counsellor of Liberty High.

==Personal life==
While on the set of the ''Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards'', Nagra met Irish actor Kieran Creggan with whom she later moved into a flat in [[Kennington]], [[South London]]. They were in a relationship for five years.<ref name="Parminder bio"/>

On 17 January 2009, after a seven-year relationship, Nagra married photographer James Stenson. Her ''ER'' co-stars [[Scott Grimes]] and [[John Stamos]] performed at the ceremony, and her friend and former ''ER'' co-star [[Maura Tierney]] officiated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://okmagazine.com/couples/ok-exclusive-inside-parminder-nagras-wedding/|title=OK! Exclusive: Inside Parminder Nagra's wedding|work=[[OK!]]|date=23 January 2009|access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref> On 19 May 2009, she gave birth to their son Kai David Singh Stenson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/its-a-boy-for-parminder-nagra/|title=It's a boy for Parminder Nagra|last=Michaud|first=Sarah|work=People|date=27 May 2009|access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref> On 8 February 2012, it was reported that Nagra had filed for divorce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Parminder-Nagra-files-for-divorce/Article1-809394.aspx|title=Parminder Nagra files for divorce|work=Hindustan Times|date=10 February 2012|access-date=21 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504144404/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Parminder-Nagra-files-for-divorce/Article1-809394.aspx|archive-date=4 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The divorce was finalised in July 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/bend-it-like-beckham-actress-parminder-nagra-wins-big-in-bitter-divorce-battle/1148645/|title=Bend It Like Beckham actress Parminder Nagra wins big in bitter divorce battle|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=30 July 2013|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref>

Nagra was one of the bearers of the [[Olympic torch]] as it passed through London on its way to the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/athens/news/2004-06-26-torch-london_x.htm|title=Olympic torch travels through London|work=[[USA Today]]|date=26 June 2004|access-date=8 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530213806/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/athens/news/2004-06-26-torch-london_x.htm|archive-date=30 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1991
| ''Dushmani Jattan Di''
|
|
|-
| 1998
| ''King Girl''
| Ayshe
| Television film
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1999
| ''Park Stories''
|
| Short film
|-
| ''Donovan Quick''
| Radhika
| Television film
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2002
| ''The Swap''
| Hotel Receptionist
| Television film
|-
| ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]''
| Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2003
| ''Twelfth Night''
| Viola
| Television film
|-
| ''[[Second Generation (film)|Second Generation]]''
| Heere/Sonali Sharma
| Television film
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Ella Enchanted (film)|Ella Enchanted]]''
| Areida
|
|-
| 2005
| ''Maya the Indian Princess''
|
| Voice role
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2008
| ''In Your Dreams''
| Charlie
|
|-
| ''[[Batman: Gotham Knight]]''
| Cassandra
| Voice role
|-
| ''[[Compulsion (2009 film)|Compulsion]]''
| Anjika Indrani
| Television film
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Horrid Henry: The Movie]]''
| Miss Lovely
|
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Twenty8k]]''
| Deeva Jani
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Postman Pat: The Movie]]''
| Nisha Bains
| Voice role
|-
| 2018
| ''[[Bird Box (film)|Bird Box]]''
| Dr. Lapham
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| ''[[Five Feet Apart]]''
| Dr. Noor Hamid
|
|-
| ''Piney: The Lonesome Pine''
| Bus driver
| Voice role
|-
|2021
| ''Awaken''
| Rakhi Singh
|
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1996, 1998
| ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''
| Ayisha / Asha Guptah
| "Land of Hope" (season 10; episode 18) "Next of Kin" (season 13; episode 11)
|-
| 1997
| ''Turning World''
| Sabina
| First 3 episodes (season 1)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Goodness Gracious Me (BBC)|Goodness Gracious Me]]''
| Various
| (season 3; episode 2) (season 3; episode 5)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Holby City]]''
| Tina
| "The Trouble with the Truth" (season 3; episode 7)
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Judge John Deed]]''
| Ishbel McDonald
| "Exacting Justice" (Pilot)
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Always and Everyone]]''
| Sunita Verma
| (season 4; episode 1)
|-
| 2003–2009
| ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| [[Neela Rasgotra|Dr. Neela Rasgotra]]
| Series regular; 129 episodes
|-
| 2010
| ''[[The Whole Truth (TV series)|The Whole Truth]]''
| Pilar Shirazee
| "Liars" (season 1; episode 6)
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]''
| Dr. Lucille "Lucy" Banerjee
| Series regular; 11 episodes
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Tron: Uprising]]''
| Ada
| Voice role "Isolated" (season 1; episode 6)
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Psych]]''
| Rachael
| Recurring role; 4 episodes
|-
| 2013–2014
| ''[[The Blacklist]]''
| Meera Malik
| Series regular; 21 episodes
|-
| 2015
| ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''
| Ella Desai
| "[[NCIS: Los Angeles (season 6)#ep136|Expiration Date]]" (season 6; episode 16)
|-
| 2016–2017
| ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]''
| Ellen Nadeer
| Recurring role; Season 4
|-
| 2017–2018
| ''[[Fortitude (TV series)|Fortitude]]''
| Dr Surinder Khatri
| Main role; Series 2 Voice cameo; Series 3
|-
| 2018–2020
| ''[[13 Reasons Why]]''
| Counselor Priya Singh
| Supporting cast
|-
| 2018–2019
| ''[[God Friended Me]]''
| Pria Amar
| Recurring role
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Elementary (TV series)|Elementary]]''
| [[Federal Bureau of Investigation#Rank structure|Special Agent]] Mallik
| 2 episodes {{small|Note: Despite similarities in name, this does ''not'' appear to be the same character as Meera Malik that Nagra portrayed on ''[[The Blacklist (TV series)|The Blacklist]]''.}}
|-
|2020
|''[[Black-ish]]''
|Dr. Wen
|"Hero Pizza" (season 7; episode 1)
|-
| 2021
|''[[Intergalactic (TV series)|Intergalactic]]''
|Arch-Marshall Rebecca Harper
|Main role
|-
| 2022
|''[[DI Ray]]''
|Detective Inspector Rachita Ray
| Lead role; [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] drama<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-commissions-compelling-crime-thriller-di-ray-starring-parminder-nagra|title=ITV commissions compelling crime thriller DI Ray starring Parminder Nagra|website=itv.com/presscentre|access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref>
|-
| 2023
|''[[Maternal (TV series)|Maternal]]''
|Dr. Maryam Afridi
| Lead role; [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] drama<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week3/maternal|title=Maternal|website=itv.com/presscentre|access-date=5 January 2023}}</ref>
|}

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Organisation
!Award/Category
!Result
!Work
|-
|rowspan=2|2010
|rowspan="2"|[[Audie Awards]]
||[[Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year|Audiobook of the Year]]
|rowspan=2 {{won}}
|rowspan=2|''Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales''
|-
| [[Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance|Multi-Voiced Performance]]
|-
|2008
|[[Asian Excellence Awards]]
|Outstanding television actress
|{{nom}}
|''ER''
|-
|2007
|Asian Excellence Awards
|Outstanding television actress
|{{won}}
|''ER''
|-
|2006
|Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards
|Arts
|{{nom}}
|
|-
|2005
|South Asian Students' Alliance
|Recognition of Excellence Award Outstanding Achievement in Acting (Female)
|{{won}}
|''ER''
|-
|2004
|[[Teen Choice Awards]]
|Choice Breakout TV Star—Female
|{{nom}}
|''ER''
|-
|2004
|[[Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy|Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards]]
|Best Television Actress
|{{won}}
|''Second Generation'' (2003)
|-
|2004
|Movieline Young Hollywood Awards
|Breakthrough Performance by a Female
|{{won}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2004
|Internet Movie Awards
|Best Breakthrough Performance
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2003
|[[Empire Awards]]
|Best Newcomer
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2003
|7th Annual Hollywood Film Festival Awards
|Hollywood Actress of the Year
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2003
|Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards
|Best Actress (Film)
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2002
|[[FIFA]]
|[[FIFA Presidential Award]]
|{{won}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2002
|Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema
|Golden Wave Best Actress (Meilleure Comédienne Long Métrage)
|{{won}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002) Tied with Keira Knightley
|-
|2002
|[[British Independent Film Awards]]
|Most Promising Newcomer
|{{nom}}
|Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
|-
|2002
|[[European Film Awards]]
|Audience Award Best Actress
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|-
|2002
|Carlton Multicultural Achievement Awards
|Film
|{{nom}}
|''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002)
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Parminder Nagra}}
* {{IMDb name|0619406|Parminder Nagra}}
* [https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/parminder-nagra Parminder Nagra Fan Club (fansite)]

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[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century British actresses]]
[[Category:21st-century British actresses]]
[[Category:Actresses from Leicestershire]]
[[Category:British actresses of Indian descent]]
[[Category:British expatriate actresses in the United States]]
[[Category:British film actresses]]
[[Category:British people of Punjabi descent]]
[[Category:British television actresses]]
[[Category:British voice actresses]]
[[Category:People from Leicester]]

Parminder Nagra - Revision history

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