Karan Soni

Karan Soni (born January 8, 1989, New Delhi, India) is an Indian-American actor who moved to the United States to study business at the University of Southern California before redirecting his ambitions toward acting. He made his feature film debut in the indie science-fiction comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) and followed it with a lead role in the Amazon series Betas (2013).

Soni became widely known to mainstream audiences for portraying Dopinder, the devoted and aspiring mercenary taxi driver, in the Deadpool films: Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool and Wolverine (2024). On television he was a series regular on Blunt Talk (2015-2016) and on the TBS anthology comedy Miracle Workers (2019-2023). He also voiced Pavitr Prabhakar, the Spider-Man of Mumbai, in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

In Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), Soni played Bennie, the perennially late delivery driver for Zhu's Authentic Hong Kong Food, the Chinese restaurant below the Ghostbusters' eventual firehouse headquarters. Bennie appears across multiple sections of the film (Chapters 2, 5, 11, and 16) as a recurring gag character: he delivers regularly to Abby Yates at the Kenneth P. Higgins Institute despite being consistently an hour late and despite Zhu's always being stingy with portion sizes. Even after the Ghostbusters relocated their operation to the building directly above Zhu's, Bennie remained an hour late on every delivery. Bennie also appears in three deleted scenes: "Bennie and Erin," "The Big Test," and "The New Book." Soni was already familiar with director Paul Feig and several of the film's cast members through his work on the Yahoo! Screen comedy series Other Space (2015), which also starred Milana Vayntrub, Neil Casey, and Eugene Cordero.