Anecdotes

For her role on The Good Wife (2009), 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).

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 Une grande année (2006) on someone she knew in Mumbai.

She was 26 when she played the 14-year-old Meenah Khan in Fish and chips (1999).

Both of her parents were schoolteachers.

Won Best Actress for her role in Yasmin (2004) at the Reims Festival in 2006.

Awarded the Shooting Star Award at the Berlin International Film Festival 2005 for Yasmin (2004). She was selected from hundreds of actors to represent the UK.