--- title: 'The Good Wife' Actress Archie Panjabi to Leave After Season 6 description: Archie Panjabi, the actress who plays investigator Kalinda Sharma, will leave the show after Season 6 canonical: https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-15T19:12:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:48:56.855Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'The Good Wife' Actress Archie Panjabi to Leave After Season 6 og:description: Archie Panjabi, the actress who plays investigator Kalinda Sharma, will leave the show after Season 6 og:url: https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99eb565537117239/698760f9f887dca7cfe87868/archie-panjabi-good-wife.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Archie Panjabi on the 'Good Wife' on Feb. 27, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Good Wife' Actress Archie Panjabi to Leave After Season 6 twitter:description: Archie Panjabi, the actress who plays investigator Kalinda Sharma, will leave the show after Season 6 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99eb565537117239/698760f9f887dca7cfe87868/archie-panjabi-good-wife.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Another Star of _The Good Wife_ to Exit Show by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 15, 2014 7:12 PM UTC  Archie Panjabi on the 'Good Wife' on Feb. 27, 2014. Archie Panjabi on the 'Good Wife' on Feb. 27, 2014.Jeff Neira—CBS/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 15, 2014 7:12 PM UTC Bad news for fans of Kalinda Sharma, the tough investigator on _The Good Wife_ — actress Archie Panjabi will be leaving CBS’s hit drama at the end of the current season. [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/15/archie-panjabi-leaving-good-wife/) says the Emmy winner will be leaving the show when her contract is up at the end of Season 6 to star in a pilot for a 20th Century Fox Television drama. “Archie is an Emmy Award-winning dramatic actress, and rightly so. Her work on _The Good Wife_ has been extraordinary, and the time has come for her to star in a project of her own,” 20th Executive Vice President of casting Sharon Klein said. “We couldn’t be happier that it will be with us.” Panjabi’s exit comes just one season after actor Josh Charles, who played lawyer Will Gardner, [left abruptly.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDYQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F43598%2Fgood-wife-review-last-call%2F&ei=k8Q-VNK%5FOcOsyATf3YDwAw&usg=AFQjCNGFQb4ndQ4egoRlV52s8SJoL22fPw&sig2=79vVviAChsXFACsShjA9jQ&bvm=bv.77412846,d.aWw) Read more at [_Entertainment Weekly._ ](http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/15/archie-panjabi-leaving-good-wife/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/"},"headline":"Another Star of The Good Wife to Exit Show","datePublished":"2014-10-15T19:12:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:48:56.855Z","description":"Archie Panjabi, the actress who plays investigator Kalinda Sharma, will leave the show after Season 6","url":"https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99eb565537117239/698760f9f887dca7cfe87868/archie-panjabi-good-wife.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99eb565537117239/698760f9f887dca7cfe87868/archie-panjabi-good-wife.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Archie Panjabi on the 'Good Wife' on Feb. 27, 2014.","caption":"Archie Panjabi on the 'Good Wife' on Feb. 27, 2014.","creditText":"Jeff Neira—CBS/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3510903/the-good-wife-archie-panjabi-kalinda-sharma/","name":"Another Star of The Good Wife to Exit Show"}}]}] ```