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 as a series regular on Blunt Talk (2015–2016) and Miracle Workers (2019–2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Karan Soni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse — Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
• 2027The Surgeon — Brian
• 2026B-Roll — Doug
• 2026Paper Flowers — Milan
• The Altruists — Nishad Singh
• 2025A Nice Indian Boy — Naveen Gavaskar, Executive Producer
• Pluribus — Deshpande
• 2025Stealing Pulp Fiction — Steve
• 2024Deadpool & Wolverine — Dopinder
• Nobody Wants This — Vali
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
• 2023World's Best — Calming Voice (voice)
• 2022Dealing with Dad — Gordon
• 2022Four Samosas — Sanjay, Executive Producer
• 2022Not Okay — Kelvin
• 2022Strange World — Caspian (voice)
• The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib — Pip (voice)
• 2022The People We Hate at the Wedding — Dominic
• 20217 Days — Ravi, Writer
• Abbott Elementary — Avi, Director
• 2021Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine — Sid
• Home Economics — Tod
• The Great North — Gavin (voice)
• 2021Trolls Holiday in Harmony — Riff (voice)
• Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun — Jerry Seinfeld
• 2020Coffee Shop Names — Sathya
• 2020Like a Boss — Josh Tinker
• 2020Superintelligence — Ahmed
• 2020Trolls World Tour — Riff (voice)
• 2019Always Be My Maybe — Tony
• 2019Corporate Animals — Freddie
• 2019Eureka! — Glenn
• 2019Kala Shah Kala — Producer
• Miracle Workers — Sanjay, TI-90, Lord Vexler, The Gunslinger
• 2019Pokémon Detective Pikachu — Jack
• Special
• 2018Better Start Running — Nelson
• 2018Deadpool 2 — Dopinder
• 2018Little Bitches — Andy
• 2018Office Uprising — Mourad
• 2018Once Upon a Deadpool — Dopinder
• 2017And Then There Was Eve — Zain
• 2017Bailaras — Co-Producer
• 2017Chee and T — Roger Raval
• 2017Creep 2 — Dave
• Room 104 — Anish, Director
• 2017Rough Night — Raviv
• 2017The Sweet Life — Convenience Store Clerk
• 2017Unicorn Store — Kevin
• What Would Diplo Do?
• Will & Grace — Mike
• 2016Deadpool — Dopinder
• Dream Corp LLC — Patient 27
• 2016Ghostbusters — Bennie
• 2016Mono — CDC Expert
• 2016Office Christmas Party — Nate
• Wrecked — Keith
• Blunt Talk — Martin Bassi
• 2015Goosebumps — Mr. Rooney
• Other Space — Stewart Lipinski
• Growing Up Fisher — Owen
• Silicon Valley — Tenley
• 2014Supremacy — Store Clerk
• Betas — Nash
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Gordon Lundt
• Mighty Med — Benny
• The Goldbergs — Srini, Srinivas Bollimpalli, Randy Mescunda
• 1600 Penn — Misfit
• Are You There, Chelsea? — Stan
• 2012Safety Not Guaranteed — Arnau
• Touch — Ravi
• 2011Worst. Prom. Ever. — Glenn
• The Middle — Vijal
• American Dad! — Indian Anchor (voice)
• Fade to Black — Amit
• IGNIS
• Thud
• Unaccompanied Minor

Appearances as themselves (4)

• After Midnight — Self
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie — Self
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast — Self
• The George Lucas Talk Show: Live — Self