On 17 January 2009, after a seven-year relationship, Nagra married photographer James Stenson.
She was nominated, and won, several awards, including the 2002 , making her the first woman to have done so.
Despite lacking formal theatrical training, Nagra signed with Joan Brown, a veteran London-based agent, after which she was cast in minor television roles in the British medical drama series , and in the television film King Girl, in which she played an abusive member of an all-girl gang.