PARMINDER NAGRA

Nagra was born in Leicester England, the daughter of working class Jatt 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.