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Phaldut "Paul" Sharma is a Welsh actor and dancer. He is known for playing Achmed in Gavin & Stacey and AJ Ahmed in EastEnders .
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Phaldut "Paul" Sharma is a Welsh actor and dancer. He is known for playing Achmed in Gavin & Stacey and AJ Ahmed in EastEnders .
Sharma played Vinnay Ramdas in Casualty and then Damon Lynch in 2011, [1] Rajiv in comedy-drama Roger Roger and Paul in Meet the Magoons . [2] He has also appeared in episodes of Life on Mars , 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 . In 2009, Sharma appeared as Hindu nationalist Harish Dhillon in an episode of Spooks. In 2012, Sharma was cast in EastEnders as Masood Ahmed's (Nitin Ganatra) brother AJ, a regular character. [3] He left the soap opera in 2014. [4] 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. [5] He also appeared as Leigh in episodes four and five of Cucumber . 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 ITV drama Unforgotten . [6] In 2023 he filmed the BBC television feature Men Up , about the first clinical trials for the drug Viagra that took place in Swansea in 1994. [7] He plays Peetham "Pete" Shah. [8]
Sharma played Sammy Davis Jr in the West End production of Rat Pack Confidential in 2003. [9]
From September to October 2010, he appeared in Factory Theatre Company's Boiling Frogs at Southwark Playhouse, London. [10] [11]
Nina Wadia is an English actress and comedian. She is known for portraying Zainab Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Aunty Noor in Citizen Khan, Mrs Hussein in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours and for starring in the BBC Two sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
Joanna Louise Page 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 featured as Just Judy in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually. She currently co-presents the BBC One consumer series Shop Well for Less. In 2023, Page joined Loose Women as a regular panellist.
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Men Up is a BBC One and BBC iPlayer television film, about the first ever clinical trials for the drug viagra, which took place in Swansea in 1994. Russell T Davies is amongst the executive producers. The cast includes Aneurin Barnard, Alexandra Roach, Phaldut Sharma, Iwan Rheon, Steffan Rhodri and Joanna Page. It aired on 29 December 2023.
