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Parminder Kaur Nagra (Punjabi: ਪਰਮਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ ਨਾਗਰਾ; born October 5, 1975 in Leicester, England) is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2003 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. More recently she starred in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER.

Nagra was born in Leicester England, the daughter of working class Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from the Punjab region of northern India in the late 1960s. Her father, Sukha, was a factory worker who is believed to have separated from her mother, Nashuter, when Parminder was a child, or as some close family friends say, when Parminder was due to be born, although the true story is not known. Her father died in late December 2008. Parminder, her two younger brothers, and her younger sister 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 fabric was later removed, her skin attached to it and left a resulting scar on her right leg. The story was included into the film Bend It Like Beckham; however, the details were changed such that her character was burned while making beans on toast.

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