Karan Soni
January 8, 1989 (35 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 · Home Economics as Tod
- 2021 · The Great North as Gavin (voice)
- 2020 · Superintelligence as Ahmed
- 2020 · Trolls World Tour as Riff (voice)
- 2020 · Like a Boss as Josh Tinker
- 2019 · Always Be My Maybe as Tony
- 2019 · Pokémon Detective Pikachu as Jack
- 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 · Office Christmas Party as Nate
- 2016 · Dream Corp LLC as Patient 27
- 2016 · Ghostbusters as Benny
- 2016 · Wrecked as Keith
- 2016 · Deadpool as Dopinder
- 2015 · Goosebumps as Mr. Rooney
- 2014 · Silicon Valley as Tenley
- 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
- Future · Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
- 2024 · Stealing Pulp Fiction as Steve
- 2024 · A Nice Indian Boy as Naveen Gavaskar
- 2023 · World's Best as Calming Voice (voice)
- 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 · Trolls Holiday in Harmony as Riff (voice)
- 2021 · 7 Days as Ravi
- 2021 · Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine as Sid
- 2020 · Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Jerry Seinfeld
- 2020 · Coffee Shop Names as Sathya
- 2019 · Corporate Animals as Freddie
- 2019 · B-Roll as Doug
- 2019 · Eureka! as Glenn
- 2019 · Special as
- 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 · Mono as CDC Expert
- 2015 · Blunt Talk as Martin Bassi
- 2015 · Other Space as Stewart Lipinski
- 2014 · Supremacy as Store Clerk
- 2014 · Growing Up Fisher as Owen
- 2013 · Betas as Nash
- 2012 · Safety Not Guaranteed as Arnau
- Future · Wycaro 339 as
- Future · Paper Flowers as Milan
- 2011 · Worst. Prom. Ever. as Glenn
- Future · Fade to Black as Amit