Doctor Who Taps Archie Panjabi to Play Villain Next Season

A Good Wife alum is going bad on Doctor Who next season.

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Emmy winner Archie Panjabi will play a villain on the Disney+ sci-fi series when it returns next year, according to our sister site Deadline . No further details on her character are available at this time. (TVLine has reached out to Disney+ and the BBC for confirmation.)

Panjabi will join a cast led by Ncuti Gatwa, who debuted as the Fifteenth Doctor last season, with Millie Gibson as companion Ruby Sunday and Andor’ s Varada Sethu joining next season as a new companion . Gatwa and Gibson will team up with Bridgerton standout Nicola Coughlan for Doctor Who’ s next holiday special , titled “Joy to the World” and premiering on Disney+ on Christmas Day.

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Panjabi is best known for playing investigator Kalinda Sharma on CBS’ The Good Wife , a role that earned her three Emmy nominations for best supporting actress in a drama, with a win in 2010. She recently starred opposite Idris Elba in the Apple TV+ airline thriller Hijack . Her other TV credits include Departure , Blindspot , Snowpiercer and Under the Bridge .

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