Actor, writer and producer Paul Sidhu is rapidly becoming a major force in independent cinema, having recently top-lined seven different films. He currently stars opposite Kristanna Loken, Gary Daniels and Corbin Bernsen in director R. Ellis Frazier’s action thriller, Repeater from Saban Films, in which his hitman character is hired to track down a hacker/whistleblower. The film opens in theaters on December 9 and on VOD, December 13.
Sidhu also stars in Uppercut, director Robert Beaumont’s upcoming romantic drama about an awkward attorney whose life trajectory is changed by his female boxer client. He also takes the lead in Deep Stage, an action drama about a former professional drag racer and part time drug dealer who is recruited by the DEA to take down a dangerous kingpin. Sidhu stars in, produces and co-wrote another action drama – Escape from Black Water – about an attorney who travels to the other side of the world to find what happened to his missing fiancée, but winds up in a prison convicted of her murder.
A native of New Delhi, India who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Paul was more interested in clinical psychology than drama in high school. Following that path, he attended the University of Washington, where he determined that medicine was his career goal. He later received a Masters Degree in Public Health from Tulane University, where he also graduated from medical school and switched his discipline from psychology to dermatology. As a doctor, he served his residency at the University of Southern California, and soon opened his dermatology practice, which was very successful.
It was in Los Angeles, while befriending many people in the local arts community – actors, writers, directors – that Paul achieved what he terms a personal renaissance, which revived a nascent fascination with films and filmmaking.
His first film foray as a lead actor, writer and producer was Aakhari Decision, in which he portrays a reluctant assassin who is dragged back into his dangerous profession when he falls in love. Not only did the film get a major theatrical release in India, but it made a cool profit for its investors.
Turning to science fiction, he starred in and wrote 2307: Winter’s Dream, a futuristic sci-fi action film, set in the 24th Century, in which he portrayed a retired special forces humanoid hunter who is pulled out of retirement to hunt down the leader of a humanoid rebellion.