However, the first season laid the foundation for the show to become a hit on NBC, but in that very season, one of its stars left: Parminder Nagra ... in TV series like ER and Bend It Like ...

When producers began casting for the main characters of The Blacklist, Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath chose star Parminder Nagra to play Meera Malik, a CIA agent stationed in New Delhi ...