Bend It Like Beckham star becomes a Good Wife

Indian-origin British actress Archie Panjabi, who earned rave reviews for her work in Bend It Like Beckham [ Images ], Yasmin and The Mighty Heart, is set to take on a new challenge: she'll appear this fall in a new CBS legal/political drama called The Good Wife.

Panjabi plays the role of Kalinda, a bisexual Indian investigator who works alongside the show's attorney protagonist, played by Julianna Luisa Marguiles.

Panjabi, who she spent part of her childhood in Mumbai [ Images ] and was educated in the UK, calls herself 'Part Bombayite, part British.'

The show's premiere is set for September 22, at 10 pm.

Photograph: Paresh Gandhi