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Parminder Nagra's career - Radio Times, January 2004 |
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Jane Rackham outlines the new ER star's path
to fame.
"In 1998 Parminder Nagra was acting in a musical
called Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral
in south London when director Gurinder
Chadha spotted her.
He later cast her in the
soccer-playing lead role of the hit film Bend It like
Beckham.
"That taxed me physically," says the
28-year-old,
who trained for three months to
master the moves while,
she says,
her roles
in Channel 4's ground-breaking production of
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
and their
Asian version
of King Lear,
Second Generation, "taxed
her
brain".
This week on C4,
Nagra (her full name means
Supreme Goddess Princess of Snakes) joins ER
as
medical student Neela Rasgotra.
It's not,
however,
the first time she's acted in a medical drama,
having
appeared in both BBC1's Casualty
and ITV1's A&E.
"Neela's somebody who seems astute,
very
hard-working and keen to learn," says Nagra.
"I am somebody who is hard-working and keen to
learn - although I do have my lazy days!" Nagra was born in Leicester to a non-theatrical family (her
father was a book-keeper and her mother worked
in a factory) and had no formal training as an actor,
but with rave reviews in America for ER,
it's
obviously not been a disadvantage."
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