Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2153
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Karan Soni works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Karan Soni appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Karan. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bob Persichetti, Roshan Sethi, Shawn Levy and others, Karan Soni helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice) · Deadpool (2016) as Dopinder · Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as Dopinder
Career snapshot
Ranked #2153 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2012–2027
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Roshan Sethi
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Roshan Sethi
Most common genre
Comedy
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Corporate Animals, Always Be My Maybe, Pokémon Detective Pikachu — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Corporate Animals, Always Be My Maybe, Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
Most productive era
2020s
13 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.71 film | 6.31 film |
| Action | 6.76 films | 5.43 films |
| Comedy | 6.311 films | 6.610 films |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 6.43 films |
| Horror | 5.53 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Arnau.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
The current state of the argument, as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
25 of 25 films
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Naveen Gavaskar
Directed by Roshan Sethi
as Dopinder
Directed by Tim Miller
as Dopinder
Directed by Shawn Levy
as Dopinder
Directed by David Leitch
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pavitr Prabhakar (voice) gives Karan Soni a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Naveen Gavaskar
A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
Performance score7.8
A Nice Indian Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Naveen Gavaskar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dopinder
Deadpool (2016)
Performance score7.7
Deadpool asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dopinder is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dopinder
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dopinder is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Karan Soni does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Karan at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Deadpool (2016)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Deadpool & Wolverine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roshan Sethi
Director
3 films together
Notably A Nice Indian Boy
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Rob Letterman
Director
2 films together
Notably Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Safety Not Guaranteed
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Christmas Party
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters
Tim Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Lin Oeding
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Uprising
Nahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Always Be My Maybe
Patrick Brice
Director
1 film together
Notably Corporate Animals
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Superintelligence
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably Like a Boss
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Holiday in Harmony
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably The People We Hate at the Wedding
Quinn Shephard
Director
1 film together
Notably Not Okay
Don Hall
Director
1 film together
Notably Strange World
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
Bob Persichetti
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roshan Sethi
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Nice Indian BoyDavid Leitch
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Rob Letterman
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pokémon Detective PikachuJoaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseTim Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeadpoolShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Holiday in HarmonyColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Safety Not GuaranteedNahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Always Be My MaybeQuinn Shephard
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Not OkayClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The People We Hate at the WeddingDon Hall
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Strange WorldMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Like a BossBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperintelligenceLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office Christmas PartyLin Oeding
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office UprisingPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostbustersPatrick Brice
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Corporate AnimalsBob Persichetti
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-VerseSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trolls World Tour
as Riff (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Trolls World Tour
as Riff (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Karan Soni has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
21 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trolls World Tour
as Riff (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Jack
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Riff (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deadpool
as Dopinder
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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