'The Good Wife's' Archie Panjabi To Exit The Show After This Season

The CBS legal drama The Good Wife will be without actress Archie Panjabi who will be exiting at the end of the season.

The actress has been on the show since premiering in 2009. Although her role these past five years has won her an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress, it seems as though the actress is moving on with 20th Century Fox Television, in which Panjabi will be headlining a new drama pilot, according to Entertainment Tonight.

"Archie is an Emmy Award-winning dramatic actress, and rightly so," said Sharon Klein, 20th's executive vice president of casting. "Her work on The Good Wife has been extraordinary, and the time has come for her to star in a project of her own. We couldn't be happier that it will be with us."

Character Kalinda Sharma was the investigator at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner. Her character is good at her job, though doesn't always follow the legal road to get what she wants. She's usually the key person to help pull through a case.

What will the show do without their signature leather-wearing and knee-high-boots character?

Some of her cast members have spoken about her departure to The Hollywood Reporter,

"Archie is an amazing actress who helped build Kalinda from the ground up as an enigmatic, powerful and sexy character," said Robert and Michelle King, the show's creators. "It's been a pleasure to write for her, and we'll be sad to see her go, but we still have her for the rest of Season 6, so let's not exhaust our goodbyes yet. We look forward to meeting all the wonderful new characters Archie brings to the screen. But either way, we're keeping the boots." 

Fans may remember the Yasmin actress as playing Pinky Bhamra in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, the British comedy-drama staring Keira Knightley.

She started taking on British roles first with East Is East in 1999 and the recent BBC television series Life on Mars. Her first Hollywood role, as a British diplomat, was in the Oscar-winning movie The Constant Gardener (2005).