Biography
Parminder Nagra is a British actress. Born in Leicester, she trained with the Haithizi Productions theatre company and appeared in stage productions in the 1990s before moving into television and film.
She came to international attention as Jess Bhamra in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham. Nagra then played Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the NBC series ER from 2003 to 2009. Her other television roles include Meera Malik in the first season of The Blacklist (2013), Ellen Nadeer in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016–2017), and the lead in the ITV series DI Ray (2022–2024).
