Karan Soni

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 as a series regular on Blunt Talk (2015–2016) and Miracle Workers (2019–2023).

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Known For

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Gordon Lundt

American Dad!

Indian Anchor (voice)

The Middle

Vijal

Deadpool 2

Dopinder

The Goldbergs

Srini

The Goldbergs

Srinivas Bollimpalli

The Goldbergs

Randy Mescunda

Home Economics

Tod

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2027	Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse	Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
2026	B-Roll	Doug
2025	A Nice Indian Boy	Naveen Gavaskar
2024	Paper Flowers	Milan
2024	Stealing Pulp Fiction	Steve
2024	Deadpool & Wolverine	Dopinder
2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
2023	World's Best	Calming Voice (voice)
2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie	Self
2022	The People We Hate at the Wedding	Dominic
2022	Not Okay	Kelvin
2022	Four Samosas	Sanjay
2022	Dealing with Dad	Gordon
2022	Strange World	Caspian (voice)
2021	Trolls Holiday in Harmony	Riff (voice)
2021	Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine	Sid
2021	7 Days	Ravi
2020	Trolls World Tour	Riff (voice)
2020	Like a Boss	Josh Tinker
2020	Superintelligence	Ahmed
2020	Coffee Shop Names	Sathya
2019	Eureka!	Glenn
2019	Corporate Animals	Freddie
2019	Always Be My Maybe	Tony
2019	Paharganj	Jitendar Tomar
2019	Pokémon Detective Pikachu	Jack
2018	Little Bitches	Andy
2018	Office Uprising	Mourad
2018	Deadpool 2	Dopinder
2018	Better Start Running	Nelson
2018	Once Upon a Deadpool	Dopinder
2017	Unicorn Store	Kevin
2017	Rough Night	Raviv
2017	The Sweet Life	Convenience Store Clerk
2017	And Then There Was Eve	Zain
2017	Chee and T	Roger Raval
2017	Creep 2	Dave
2016	Office Christmas Party	Nate
2016	Ghostbusters	Bennie
2016	Mono	CDC Expert
2016	Deadpool	Dopinder
2015	Goosebumps	Mr. Rooney
2014	Supremacy	Store Clerk
2012	Safety Not Guaranteed	Arnau
2011	Worst. Prom. Ever.	Glenn
	Fade to Black	Amit
	Send a Scare
	IGNIS

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Nobody Wants This	Vali
2024	After Midnight	Self
2021	Home Economics	Tod
2021	The Great North	Gavin (voice)
2021	Abbott Elementary	Avi
2020	Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun	Jerry Seinfeld
2019	Special
2019	Miracle Workers	Sanjay
2019	Miracle Workers	TI-90
2019	Miracle Workers	Lord Vexler
2019	Miracle Workers	The Gunslinger
2017	Room 104	Anish
2017	What Would Diplo Do?
2017	Will & Grace	Mike
2016	Dream Corp LLC	Patient 27
2016	Wrecked	Keith
2015	Other Space	Stewart Lipinski
2015	Blunt Talk	Martin Bassi
2014	Silicon Valley	Tenley
2014	Growing Up Fisher	Owen
2013	Betas	Nash
2013	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Gordon Lundt
2013	The Goldbergs	Srini
2013	The Goldbergs	Srinivas Bollimpalli
2013	The Goldbergs	Randy Mescunda
2013	Mighty Med	Benny
2012	Touch	Ravi
2012	1600 Penn	Misfit
2009	The Middle	Vijal
2005	American Dad!	Indian Anchor (voice)
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