She provided the voices for several characters in the British children's television animation "Postman Pat". She lent her voice to the video game "". Panjabi appeared on the BBC Four "World Cinema Award" show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits such as "The Lives of Others" and "Pan's Labyrinth" with Jonathan Ross and Christopher Eccleston. In 2009 she portrayed an MI5 agent in the French movie "Espion(s)", and in the same year she joined the cast of the new CBS television series "The Good Wife" as Kalinda Sharma, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. Panjabi was the first actor of Asian descent to win an Emmy award.