Парминдер Награ: Путь британской актрисы

British actress

Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) 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 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.

Not long after filming ended on Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra co starred in the fantasy romantic comedy Ella Enchanted alongside Anne Hathaway where she played Areida, the best friend of Hathaway’s's title character. While on a promotional junket in Los Angeles for Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra was informed by her agent that John Wells, one of the producers of the NBC medical drama series ER, was interested in meeting her. and the media concurred, anointing her as one of the show's "golden girls". 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. 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. Nagra was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctors of Letters by the University of Leicester on 11 July 2007. In 2008, Nagra voiced Cassandra in the DC animated film Batman: Gotham Knight. Later, she co starred as Dr Lucy Banerjee in the Fox science fiction drama series Alcatraz which ran for one season from 16 January to 26 March 2012. Nagra starred as CIA agent Meera Malik in the first season of the NBC crime drama series The Blacklist from 2013 to 2014. In 2016, Nagra joined the second season of British arctic psychological thriller 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. More recently, Nagra has starred as the titular character of the ITV series DI Ray (2022). One series of four episodes has aired. A second series of six episodes began filming in May 2023.

In 1996, while on the set of the play 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. On 19 May 2009, she gave birth to their son Kai David Singh Stenson. On 8 February 2012, it was reported that Nagra had filed for divorce. The divorce was finalised in July 2013. 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. As of 2022, she lives in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

Year Title Role Notes 1991 Dushmani Jattan Di 1999 Park Stories Short film 2002 Bend It Like Beckham Jasminder "Jess" Bhamra 2004 Ella Enchanted Areida 2005 B13Narrator Voice 2008 In Your Dreams Charlie Batman: Gotham Knight Cassandra Voice 2011 Horrid Henry: The Movie Miss Lovely 2012 Twenty8k Deeva Jani 2014 Postman Pat: The Movie Nisha Bains Voice 2018 Bird Box Dr. Lapham 2019 Five Feet Apart Dr. Noor Hamid Piney: The Lonesome Pine Bus driver Voice2021 Awaken Rakhi Singh

Year Title Role Notes 1996, 1998 Casualty Ayisha / Asha Guptah 2 episodes 1997 Turning World Sabina 3 episodes 1998 Faxbir Babu Frik TV movie 1999 Donovan Quick Radhika TV movie 2000 Goodness Gracious Me Various 2 episodes 2000 Holby City Tina Episode: "The Trouble with the Truth" 2001 Judge John Deed Ishbel McDonald Episode: "Exacting Justice" (Pilot) 2002 Always and Everyone Sunita Verma Episode: "A New Breed" 2002 The Swap Hotel Receptionist TV movie 2003 Twelfth Night Viola TV movie 2003 Second Generation Heere/Sonali Sharma TV movie 2003–2009 ER Dr. Neela Rasgotra Main cast (Seasons 10–15) 2009 Compulsion Anjika Indrani TV movie 2010 The Whole Truth Pilar Shirazee Episode: "Liars" 2012 Alcatraz Dr. Lucille "Lucy" Banerjee Main cast 2012 Tron: Uprising Ada Episode: "Isolated", voice 2013 Psych Rachael 4 episodes 2013–2014 The Blacklist Meera Malik Main cast (Season 1) 2015 NCIS: Los Angeles Ella Desai Episode: "Expiration Date" 2016–2017 Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Ellen Nadeer 5 episodes 2017–2018 Fortitude Dr Surinder Khatri Main cast (Series 2), voice cameo (Series 3) 2018–2020 13 Reasons Why Counselor Priya Singh 5 episodes 2018–2019 God Friended Me Pria Amar 5 episodes 2019 Elementary Special Agent Mallick 2 episodes2020Black ishDr. WenEpisode: "Hero Pizza" 2021IntergalacticArch Marshall Rebecca HarperMain cast 2022DI RayDetective Inspector Rachita Ray Title character 2023MaternalDr. Maryam Afridi Main cast