Karan Soni

Acting · Born 1989-01-08 in New Delhi, India

Biography

Karan Soni (born January 8, 1989) is an Indian-American actor and comedian. Often appearing in comedic roles, he came to prominence for playing Dopinder in the films Deadpool (2016) and its sequels Deadpool 2 (2018) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and voicing Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Born in New Delhi, Soni moved to the United States to study business at the University of Southern California before pursuing an acting career. He made his feature film debut in Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), which was followed by lead appearances on the series Betas (2013) and Other Space (2015). Soni has also appeared in the films Ghostbusters (2016), Office Christmas Party (2016), and Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019). On television, he has appeared…

Filmography

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
• Deadpool & Wolverine as Dopinder
• Deadpool 2 as Dopinder
• Deadpool as Dopinder
• Trolls World Tour as Riff (voice)
• Once Upon a Deadpool as Dopinder
• The People We Hate at the Wedding as Dominic
• Not Okay as Kelvin
• Trolls Holiday in Harmony as Riff (voice)
• A Nice Indian Boy as Naveen Gavaskar

TV

• Silicon Valley as Tenley
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Gordon Lundt
• Pluribus as Deshpande
• Room 104 as Anish
• Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Jerry Seinfeld
• The Middle as Vijal
• Dream Corp LLC as Patient 27
• Betas as Nash
• Other Space as Stewart Lipinski
• Blunt Talk as Martin Bassi