INDIAN star Priyanka Chopra now has a role on an American TV show.

    Chopra is a megastar from Mumbai, India, home to the world’s most prolific film industry.

    She’s an award-winning actress, a former Miss World, a singer and a dancer. She serves as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador and as a United Nations Girl Up Champion.

    Chopra has international cachet and a global fan base. But her star power has been relatively lackluster in the United States.

    That may be about to change. Chopra is the star of “Quantico,” a drama premiering Sept. 27 on ABC. In recent weeks, her face has been splashed across billboards and buses from Los Angeles to Toronto to New York.

    In the series, Chopra plays Alex Parrish, one of a diverse group of new FBI recruits, each with a mysterious past. As the show cuts between the present and the past, Parrish becomes the prime suspect in a devastating terrorist attack in New York.

    Chopra describes her character as a “Jason Bourne in a female form.”

    “Quantico” has been described as “Homeland” meets “Grey’s Anatomy.” Its cast includes Aunjanue Ellis as the assistant director of the FBI academy and Jake McLaughlin as a fellow FBI recruit and love interest, but Chopra’s character has the central role.(SD-Agencies)