First South Asian actress to win the award.
By Sreejith Vallikunnu
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has bagged the favorite actress in a New TV series award at the People’s Choice Awards (PCA) 2016 for her role as an FBI agent in the ABC network drama series Quantico.
The 33-year-old former Miss World now becomes the first South Asian actress to win a People’s Choice award.
The actress, who made her Bollywood debut in 2003, with the movie ‘The Hero: Love Story of a Spy’, plays the character Alex Parrish – one of a diverse group of new FBI recruits – in the Quantico series.
After winning the award, along with an image of herself with the award, Chopra tweeted that, “I am so fortunate! Thank U to everyone who voted for me at the #PCAs! My #PCManiacs-I am nothing without you! Big love.”
“I’d like to thank everyone who voted for ‘Quantico’. It is my first year in the US, and to come to another country and actually get this kind of acceptance is, I guess, what America is all about,” she said at the event.
“So, thank you for accepting me, thank you to my mom, my manager, the cast and crew, the writer, ABC … everyone. I’m really overwhelmed,” she added.
Other actresses nominated for the award included Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele and Marcia Gay Harden.
Chopra had recently crossed four million followers on Instagram and became Asia’s third most followed woman on twitter. She was also voted as the sexiest Asian woman by a UK-based publication for the second consecutive year.
Chopra’s upcoming prominent movie in Bollywood, ‘Jai Gangaajal’, is set to release in theaters on March 4, 2016.
Chopra is also the one and only South Asian actress to bag a starring role in an American network.