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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 2 April 2009. She is married to photographer James Stenson, with whom she has a son, Kai David Singh Stenson, who was born on 19 May 2009. She stars as Lucy, in the Fox television series, Alcatraz. Nagra was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of Punjabi Jat Sikh parents who emigrated to... MORE

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 2 April 2009. She is married to photographer James Stenson, with whom she has a son, Kai David Singh Stenson, who was born on 19 May 2009. She stars as Lucy, in the Fox television series, Alcatraz. Nagra was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of Punjabi Jat Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from 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 brought up 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 LESS