Parminder Nagra Movies and Career Information

Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. She starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER for six years until the series ended on April 2, 2009. She is married to photographer James Stenson and has a son, Kai David Singh Stenson. Nagra was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of working class Punjabi Jatt Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from the Punjab, India during the late 1960s. Her father, Sukha, was a factory worker who is believed to have separated from her mother, Nashuter, either when Nagra was a child shortly after or before her birth; 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 caught fire. She was taken into the bathroom by an uncle who immersed her in cold water. When the burned