Archie Panjabi Reportedly Cast As Doctor Who Villain in Series 15

Via Deadline

Emmy Award winner Archie Panjabi (Under the Bridge, Snowpiercer) will star as a villain in [Series 15] of Doctor Who, sources tell Deadline. The BBC and Disney+ series is set to return in 2025.

Details regarding her character remain under wraps. BBC and Disney+ declined to comment for this story.

Panjabi joins Ncuti Gatwa, who currently stars as the titular Time Lord; Millie Gibson, who plays his companion Ruby Sunday; and Varada Sethu, who will serve as the fifteenth Doctor co-companion Belinda Chandra.

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British actress Panjabi is an Emmy Award winner whose breakout role in the U.S. was in the 2002 film, Bend It Like Beckham, playing the character “Pinky Kaur Bhamra.” She followed with a variety of TV and film projects including The Constant Gardener (2005), A Good Year (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007) and San Andreas (2015) on the big screen and TV, BBC Two’s The Fall, BBC’s Shetland, NBC’s Blindspot, TNT’s Snowpiercer and most recently, Hulu’s Under the Bridge.

Panjabi is best known for playing “Kalinda Sharma” across six seasons of the hit CBS series The Good Wife. She received three Emmy nominations for the role including her first win in 2010 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She currently stars in and executive-produces the Peacock Original series, Departure, across the show’s three seasons.