Archie made her film debut in the British hit _East Is East is a big fan of hers.
She spent part of her childhood in Mumbai (Bombay), which is why she considers herself "Part Bombayite, part British." She based the character Gemma/Jessminder in Ridley Scott s A Good Year on someone she knew in Mumbai.
Awarded the Shooting Star Award at the Berlin International Film Festival 2005 for Yasmin . She was selected from hundreds of actors to represent the UK.
Won Best Actress for her role in Yasmin at the Reims Festival in 2006.
For her role on "The Good Wife" , she was named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art", in the cover story of The New York Times Magazine (9/11/11). Also named as one of the Top 10 Faces on TV to Watch. (Variety, 2009).
Both of her parents were schoolteachers.
She was 26 when she played the 14-year-old Meenah Khan in East Is East .
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even,thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path,many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were,very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood,that this is what I wanted to do.
I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in,management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those,days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black,faces.
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was,content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me,to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I,tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
