Archie PanjabiFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Raven-haired actress Archie Panjabi claimed a unique, exotic, and alluring look that spoke to her Indian ancestry -- and that opened up a myriad of doors in Hollywood productions, usually in a supporting capacity. Raised in Britain, Panjabi first broke through to international acclaim as tomboy...Read More

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Espion(s)

Actors: Vincent Regan, Stephen Rea, Archie Panjabi, Alexander Siddig, Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas

Synopsis: Vincent Regan stars in this French-language paranoia thriller as Peter Burton, a diabolically brilliant young man. In lieu of pursuing a formal education and a 9-to-5 office job, Peter ankled the standard route to success and now makes his living as a serial thief, lifting the valuables of patrons Read More

1/28/09
Traitor

Actors: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Aly Khan

Synopsis: An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed Read More

8/27/08
A Mighty Heart

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Mariane's memoir recounting the abduction and murder of her husband (played in the film by Dan Futterman) by Pakistani militants. It was on January 23, 2002, that Mariane Read More

6/22/07
A Good Year

Actors: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Gladiator duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment banker who relocates to Provence in hopes of selling a small vineyard he has inherited from his recently deceased uncle. As a child, Max Skinner (Freddie Highmore Read More

11/10/06
Life on Mars: Series 01

Actors: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Marshall Lancaster, Dean Andrews

2006
The Constant Gardener

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: A man discovers a deadly secret when he tries to find out who killed the woman he loves in this suspense drama based on a novel by John Le Carré. Justin Quale (Ralph Fiennes) is a low-level British diplomat who has been given a new assignment in Kenya. Justin's wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), is an Read More

8/31/05
Yasmin

Actors: Archie Panjabi, Renu Setna, Steve Jackson, Ahmed Syed, Shahid Ahmed, Buddy Uzzaman

2004
Bend It Like Beckham

Actors: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Shaheen Khan, Anupam Kher

Synopsis: An independent-minded young woman discovers the joys of football, much to her family's chagrin, in this upbeat British comedy drama. Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is an 18-year-old growing up in West London, where her family has taken every effort to stay in touch with its Indian heritage. Jess' Read More

3/12/03
This Little Life

Actors: Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey, David Morissey, Peter Mullan, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi

2003
The Secret

Actors: Haydn Gwynne, Stella Gonet, Robert Bathurst

Synopsis: Haydn Gwynne, Robert Bathurst, and Stella Gonet co-star in the British telemovie The Secret (2002), a melodrama originally produced for (and aired on) the BBC. The story concerns Emma Faraday (Gwynne) -- on the surface, a relatively well-adjusted housewife and mother of two children, but beneath Read More

2002
White Teeth

Actors: Om Puri, Philip Davis, Naomie Harris

Synopsis: Originally telecast in the United Kingdom, the two-part miniseries White Teeth was based on Zadie Smith's 2000 bestseller about the perils of cultural assimilation in modern day North London. Taking place in the years 1974 to 1992 and set in the melting-pot community of Willesden Green, the story Read More

2002
East Is East

Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa

Synopsis: East is East, a fast-moving comedy drama of mixed-race manners, is set in Salford, England in 1970. It centers on the Anglo-Pakistani alliance of the Khan family that is both claustrophobically cohesive and hopelessly dysfunctional. In their over-crowded terrace house, anarchy erupts daily with Read More

4/14/00
In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

2000
The Thin Blue Line: Alternative Culture

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Serena Evans, David Haig, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus

Synopsis: Having been captivated by the new age movement, Sgt. Patricia Dawkins decides to go through an elaborate "rebirthing" process -- thereby driving her off-and-on lover, Inspector Raymond Fowler, completely bonkers. In the same spirit, Constable Frank Goody decides to adopt an alternative (to say the Read More

1996
Siren Spirits: Bideshi

Synopsis: The quartet of short films for this British anthology, compiled by Women Make Movies, were all made for the British Film Institute and BBC Films in 1994. The central theme unifying them is death. In the first short, "White Men Are Cracking Up," from Ngozi Onwurah, several prominent British Read More

1996
Postman Pat [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Ken Barrie, Archie Panjabi

Synopsis: Created for Britain's BBC1 in 1981, Postman Pat was a 15-minute children's show utilizing stop-motion animation and set in the mythical Yorkshire village of Greendale. The bushy-haired, needle-nosed titled character was the meticulously polite and endlessly resourceful Pat Clifton, the town's Read More

1981