Phaldut "Paul" Sharma, also known as Paul Sharma, is a UK-based actor and dancer. He is best known for his roles in Gavin and Stacey as Achmed and Eastenders as AJ Ahmed .
Career
Television and film
Sharma played Vinnay Ramdas in '' Casualty'' and then Damon Lynch in 2011, Rajiv in comedy-drama '' Roger Roger'' and Paul in ''
Meet the Magoons
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''. He has also appeared in episodes of ''
Life on Mars
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'', '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' and the BBC daytime series '' Doctors''. also appeared in one episode of Ultimate Force Series 4 Episode 3 "the dividing line".
Sharma was in the first episode of the UK comedy ''
The Office
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The original ser ...
Joanna Page
Joanna Louise Page (born 23 March 1977) is a Welsh actress and presenter. She appeared as Stacey Shipman in the BAFTA-winning television series ''Gavin & Stacey''. She played Dora Spenlow in the 1999 adaptation of ''David Copperfield'', and f ...
) ex-fiancé, Achmed, in ''
Gavin & Stacey
''Gavin & Stacey'' is a British sitcom written by James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one in Billericay, Essex; one in Barry, South Wales. Mathew Horne and Joanna Page play the titular characters Gavin and Stacey and the writers ...
''. In 2009, Sharma appeared as Hindu nationalist Harish Dhillon in an episode of ''Spooks''. In 2012, Sharma was cast in ''
EastEnders
''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...
'' as Masood Ahmed's ( Nitin Ganatra) brother AJ, a regular character. He left the soap opera in 2014. He also appeared in episode six of '' Hunted''.
In 2015, Sharma released I Gotta Be Me - a ten-part web comedy in which he plays Paul Shah - a semi-autobiographical character based on his experience as a Sammy Davis Junior tribute act. He also appeared as Leigh in episodes four and five of ''
Cucumber
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In 2021, Sharma appeared as DCI Ram Sidhu in the fourth series of ITV drama '' Unforgotten''.
Stage
Sharma played
Sammy Davis Jr
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At age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the ...