Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. More recently she starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER. She is married to photographer James Stenson and has one child.
Nagra was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of working class Punjabi Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from the Punja...
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Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. More recently she starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER. She is married to photographer James Stenson and has one child.
Nagra was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of working class Punjabi Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from the Punjab state in India during the late 1960s. Her father, Sukha, was a factory worker who is believed to have separated from her mother, Nashuter, when either Nagra was a child shortly before her; he died in late December 2008. Nagra has two younger brothers and one younger sister. They were raised in a small terraced house in the Belgrave district of Leicester by her mother and stepfather, who worked as a bookkeeper at a cousin's transport company.
At the age of seven, Nagra suffered a burn while preparing a meal on the gas stove when her trousers...
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