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''. 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'', playing Sanj, and was
Stacey Shipman's (
Joanna Page) 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'' as
Masood Ahmed
Masood Ahmed is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', played by Nitin Ganatra. The character made his first appearance in episode 3452, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2007. Masood was introduced as ...
's (
Nitin Ganatra
Nitin Chandra Ganatra (born 30 June 1967) is a Kenyan-born British actor. He is known for portraying Masood Ahmed in the BBC soap opera, '' EastEnders''.
Early and personal life
Ganatra was born on 30 June 1967 in Kenya. Both sides of 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
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''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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* Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin
* Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin
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''.
In 2021, Sharma appeared as DCI Ram Sidhu in the fourth series of
ITV drama ''
Unforgotten
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''.
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 ...
in the
West End
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* West End of London, an area of central London, England
* West End theatre, a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London, England
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Pl ...
production of ''Rat Pack Confidential'' in 2003.
From September to October 2010, he appeared in
Factory Theatre Company's Boiling Frogs at
Southwark Playhouse
Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations.
History
The Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice and Tom Wilson. They identified the need for a h ...
, London.
Boiling Frogs Review in The Independent
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References
External links
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Living people
British people of Indo-Guyanese descent
Welsh male stage actors
Welsh male television actors
People from Newport, Wales
People educated at Bassaleg School
Alumni of the Guildford School of Acting
Male actors from London
Welsh male film actors
Guyanese Hindus
1981 births
British people of Indian descent