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 ''

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'' and then Damon Lynch in 2011, Rajiv in comedy-drama ''

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'' and Paul in ''

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''. He has also appeared in episodes of ''

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'', ''

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'' and the BBC daytime series ''

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''. 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 ''

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'', playing Sanj, and was Stacey Shipman's (

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) 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 st ...

''. In 2009, Sharma appeared as Hindu nationalist Harish Dhillon in an episode of ''Spooks''. In 2012, Sharma was cast in ''

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'' as

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's (

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) 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 ''

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''. In 2019, he appeared as Tom, the father of Sophie who befriends the titular character in season 1 of '' Hanna''. In 2021, Sharma appeared as DCI Ram Sidhu in the fourth series of

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drama ''

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''.

Stage

Sharma played

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in the West End production of ''Rat Pack Confidential'' in 2003. From September to October 2010, he appeared in Factory Theatre Company's Boiling Frogs at

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, London.Boiling Frogs Review in The Independent
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Phaldut 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