Karan Soni
January 8, 1989 (36 years old) in New Delhi, India
Born in India, Karan Soni moved to the United States to study business at the University of Southern California. A career in acting instead followed, with Soni achieving prominence for his turn as unstable cab driver Dopinder in the superhero film Deadpool (2016) and its 2018 sequel. He has frequently appeared in comedic roles, including the films Goosebumps (2015), Ghostbusters (2016), Office Christmas Party (2016), Rough Night (2017), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) and Trolls World Tour (2020). On television, he portrayed the lead in Betas and (2013) and Other Space (2015) and currently stars on the anthology series Miracle Workers (2019–present).
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Nobody Wants This as Vali
- 2024 · Deadpool & Wolverine as Dopinder
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
- 2022 · Strange World as Caspian (voice)
- 2021 · Abbott Elementary as Avi
- 2021 · Trolls Holiday in Harmony as Riff (voice)
- 2021 · Home Economics as Tod
- 2021 · The Great North as Gavin (voice)
- 2020 · Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Jerry Seinfeld
- 2020 · Trolls World Tour as Riff (voice)
- 2019 · Pokémon Detective Pikachu as Jack
- 2019 · Special as
- 2019 · Miracle Workers as Sanjay
- 2019 · Miracle Workers as TI-90
- 2019 · Miracle Workers as Lord Vexler
- 2019 · Miracle Workers as The Gunslinger
- 2018 · Once Upon a Deadpool as Dopinder
- 2018 · Deadpool 2 as Dopinder
- 2017 · Will & Grace as Mike
- 2017 · Room 104 as Anish
- 2017 · Rough Night as Raviv
- 2016 · Dream Corp LLC as Patient 27
- 2016 · Ghostbusters as Bennie
- 2016 · Wrecked as Keith
- 2016 · Deadpool as Dopinder
- 2015 · Blunt Talk as Martin Bassi
- 2015 · Goosebumps as Mr. Rooney
- 2014 · Silicon Valley as Tenley
- 2014 · Growing Up Fisher as Owen
- 2013 · Mighty Med as Benny
- 2013 · The Goldbergs as Srini
- 2013 · The Goldbergs as Srinivas Bollimpalli
- 2013 · The Goldbergs as Randy Mescunda
- 2013 · Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Gordon Lundt
- 2012 · 1600 Penn as Misfit
- 2012 · Touch as Ravi
- 2009 · The Middle as Vijal
- 2005 · American Dad! as Indian Anchor (voice)
- Future · Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
- 2026 · B-Roll as Doug
- 2025 · A Nice Indian Boy as Naveen Gavaskar
- 2024 · Stealing Pulp Fiction as Steve
- 2024 · Paper Flowers as Milan
- 2023 · World's Best as Calming Voice (voice)
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie as Self
- 2022 · Four Samosas as Sanjay
- 2022 · The People We Hate at the Wedding as Dominic
- 2022 · Not Okay as Kelvin
- 2022 · Dealing with Dad as Gordon
- 2021 · 7 Days as Ravi
- 2021 · Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine as Sid
- 2020 · Superintelligence as Ahmed
- 2020 · Coffee Shop Names as Sathya
- 2020 · Like a Boss as Josh Tinker
- 2019 · Corporate Animals as Freddie
- 2019 · Always Be My Maybe as Tony
- 2019 · Eureka! as Glenn
- 2019 · Paharganj as Jitendar Tomar
- 2018 · Office Uprising as Mourad
- 2018 · Better Start Running as Nelson
- 2018 · Little Bitches as Andy
- 2017 · Creep 2 as Dave
- 2017 · The Sweet Life as Convenience Store Clerk
- 2017 · Unicorn Store as Kevin
- 2017 · What Would Diplo Do? as
- 2017 · Chee and T as Roger Raval
- 2017 · And Then There Was Eve as Zain
- 2016 · Office Christmas Party as Nate
- 2016 · Mono as CDC Expert
- 2015 · Other Space as Stewart Lipinski
- 2014 · Supremacy as Store Clerk
- 2013 · Betas as Nash
- 2012 · Safety Not Guaranteed as Arnau
- Future · Wycaro 339 as
- 2011 · Worst. Prom. Ever. as Glenn
- Future · Fade to Black as Amit
- Future · Send a Scare as