CBS' "The Good Wife" will be bidding farewell to another character.
Archie Panjabi, who played Kalinda Sharma on the CBS legal drama since season one, is exiting after the current sixth season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Panjabi, who is only contracted through season six, has Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her role on the series. She received two more Emmy nominations in 2011 and 2012.
"Archie is an Emmy-award winning dramatic actress, and rightly so," Sharon Klein, Executive Vice President of casting at 20th Century Fox, said in a statement. "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."
The 42-year-old actress has reportedly signed a "development/holding deal" with 20th Century Fox Television, which will allow her to star in her own pilot produced by the studio this fall.
"Archie is an amazing actress who helped build Kalinda from the ground up as an enigmatic, powerful and sexy character," show runners Robert and Michelle King, said in a statement. "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 six, 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."
The show is no strange to unexpected good-byes. In March, Josh Charles' character, Will Gardner, was shot and killed in a courtroom.
