ABC mistakes 'Quantico' star Priyanka Chopra for another Indian actress

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- ABC's Nightline came under fire on social media Tuesday, when they confused network star Priyanka Chopra for another Indian actress.

During a promo for an upcoming interview with Chopra, Nightline used a photo of fellow Indian actress Yukta Mookhey being crowned Miss World in 1999. Chopra won the pageant in 2000.

Viewers immediately called out ABC for their blunder taking to Twitter to express their displeasure.

"Our sincerest apologies @priyankachopra," Nightline tweeted after the mistake was brought to their attention, with a link to a corrected video.

Chopra simply tweeted back, "Thank you for the correction @Nightline."

Ironically, the show's segment discussed Chopra's role on ABC's new crime series Quantico and how she has had to fight against prejudice and racial stereotypes in the media.

In 2013, Chopra's single "In My City" was used as the opening song for the NFL's Thursday night football, a move that drew harsh criticism toward the actress.

"There was a lot of these terrorist comments that called me an 'Arab terrorist,'" she said during the interview. "I was offended on two accounts: one, why is every Arab a terrorist? And second of all, how am I an Arab? I'm Indian."

Now however the 33-year-old thinks that her lead role as CIA agent Alex Parrish on Quantico is proof that progress is being made.

"A lot of the shows have always been inside the box," she said in the interview. "I like to think outside the box... [I liked my character on Quantico because] she was ethnically ambiguous, [and] I wanted to be taken seriously as an actor and not for the color of my skin."

Quantico airs Sundays on ABC.