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Karan Soni

Karan Soni

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).

Stealing Pulp Fiction

2024

Nobody Wants This

2024

as Vali

Deadpool & Wolverine

2024

as Dopinder

A Nice Indian Boy

2024

as Naveen Gavaskar

World's Best

2023

as Calming Voice (voice)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)

Four Samosas

2022

as Sanjay

Strange World

2022

as Caspian (voice)

The People We Hate at the Wedding

2022

as Dominic

Not Okay

2022

as Kelvin

Dealing with Dad

2022

as Gordon

Abbott Elementary

2021

as Avi

Trolls Holiday in Harmony

2021

as Riff (voice)

7 Days

2021

as Ravi

Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine

2021

as Sid

Home Economics

2021

as Tod

The Great North

2021

as Gavin (voice)

Superintelligence

2020

as Ahmed

Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun

2020

as Jerry Seinfeld

Trolls World Tour

2020

as Riff (voice)

Coffee Shop Names

2020

as Sathya

Like a Boss

2020

as Josh Tinker

Corporate Animals

2019

as Freddie

B-Roll

2019

as Doug

Always Be My Maybe

2019

as Tony

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

2019

as Jack

Eureka!

2019

as Glenn

Paharganj

2019

as Jitendar Tomar

Special

2019

Miracle Workers

2019

as Sanjay

Miracle Workers

2019

as TI-90

Miracle Workers

2019

as Lord Vexler

Miracle Workers

2019

as The Gunslinger

Once Upon a Deadpool

2018

as Dopinder

Office Uprising

2018

as Mourad

Deadpool 2

2018

as Dopinder

Better Start Running

2018

as Nelson

Little Bitches

2018

as Andy

Creep 2

2017

as Dave

Will & Grace

2017

as Mike

The Sweet Life

2017

as Convenience Store Clerk

Unicorn Store

2017

as Kevin

What Would Diplo Do?

2017

Chee and T

2017

as Roger Raval

Room 104

2017

as Anish

And Then There Was Eve

2017

as Zain

Rough Night

2017

as Raviv

Office Christmas Party

2016

as Nate

Dream Corp LLC

2016

as Patient 27

Ghostbusters

2016

as Benny

Mono

2016

as CDC Expert

Wrecked

2016

as Keith

Deadpool

2016

as Dopinder

Blunt Talk

2015

as Martin Bassi

Goosebumps

2015

as Mr. Rooney

Other Space

2015

as Stewart Lipinski

Supremacy

2014

as Store Clerk

Silicon Valley

2014

as Tenley

Growing Up Fisher

2014

as Owen

Mighty Med

2013

as Benny

The Goldbergs

2013

as Srini

The Goldbergs

2013

as Srinivas Bollimpalli

The Goldbergs

2013

as Randy Mescunda

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

as Gordon Lundt

Betas

2013

as Nash

1600 Penn

2012

as Misfit

Safety Not Guaranteed

2012

as Arnau

Touch

2012

as Ravi

Worst. Prom. Ever.

2011

as Glenn

The Middle

2009

as Vijal

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)

Paper Flowers

as Milan

Fade to Black

as Amit

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