Parminder Nagra, an actress whose recent feature film was Bend It Like Beckham, will join next year's cast of ER on NBC as an Indian medical student.
In Bend it Like Beckham, she plays a teenage
English girl whose unexpected talents on the soccer field inspired by soccer star David Beckham, does not endear her to her traditional Indian family. Her other credits include an upcoming film, Ella
Enchanted, and a production of Twelfth Night for UK Channel 4.