Edward Sonnenblick is an American actor, voice artist, host, and comedian based in Mumbai and active primarily in the Indian entertainment industry since 2008. He is well known to Indian audiences for his roles as British colonial characters in period films and series, where he often speaks in fluent Hindi. 2017 was a break-out year for Edward, with leading bad-guy roles in the very serious hit series Bose Dead or Alive opposite Rajkummar Rao and in the very silly film Firangi opposite Kapil Sharma. The same year also saw him as a troubled Cricketer in Amazon Prime’s hit series Inside Edge and surprising audiences as the Hindi speaking host of Epic Channel’s travel and culture show Indipedia. In 2018 he showed is nice guy side as an American family man in the hit film Veere di Wedding and in his 2019 films we saw him back to being the not so nice British guy in both Manikarnika with Kangana Ranaut and in Kesari with Akshay Kumar. He was back on the small screen as a cast member of the Kapil Sharma Show’s second season, playing the character of Robert Paswan and performing Hindi stand-up comedy. As the pandemic began receding and filming resumed in 2021 he completed filming his main role in S.S. Rajamouli’s next film RRR and two Yash Raj Films productions, Maharaj and Tiger 3. He is currently (2021-2022) taking on a main role in Vikramaditya Motwane’s web series Stardust and the Tamil film Medhavi starring Arjun Sarja.Edward grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived most of his adult life up and down the Northern California Coast working as a natural foods chef. Stirred by the spiritual, culinary, cultural, and cinematic (yes, Bollywood) traditions of the subcontinent, Edward taught himself Hindi and moved to Mumbai in 2008 to seek his fortune as an actor in India. He soon found himself playing a double role of evil British twin brothers in the hit historical TV series, “Jhansi ki Rani,”” which got him nominated as the best villain for Zee TV that year. His Bollywood dream has continued to unfold over almost a decade and a half in the Indian entertainment business, north and south, and also includes his rise as a leading voice artist in the industry. He lives in Mumbai with his Indian wife and their 9 year old son.”
Edward Sonnenblick
Movies
Dostana
After her parents’ deaths, Neha Melwani lives in Miami with her aunt and rents out a room in her apartment to two seemingly-gay Indian men, photographer Kunal Chauhan and nurse Sameer Acharya. She introduces them to her departing gay boss Murli and falls in love with her new boss, Abhimanyu…
Dum Maaro Dum
On his way to Griffin University in the U.S., Goa-based Lawrence Eduardo Gomes is arrested and held at the airport by a corrupt ACP Vishnu Kamath as his baggage concealed drugs. While attempts by Lorry and others are made to clear Lawrence’s name, Vishnu continues his investigation aided by Inspectors…
Badmaash Company
BADMAASH COMPANY is a story set in the 1990s, of four ordinary middle-class Bombay youngsters – Karan (Shahid Kapoor), Bulbul (Anushka Sharma), Zing (Meiyang Chang) and Chandu (Vir Das) – who came together to start an import business. With their larger than life schemes, the four go on a wild…
Veere Di Wedding
Kalandi,Sakshi,Avni and Meera are childhood friends upon learning of Kalandi’s plan of getting married.The friends leave everything and meet each other to make her wedding happening.But things don’t go well and Kalandi breaks up with her fiance after engagement and the friends plan holiday where they will rediscover their lives.
Chittagong
Set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India, a 14 year old boy, Jhunku, and his journey to find where he belongs. For the first time in Indian history, the British army is defeated by a ragtag army of schoolboys and their teacher, Masterda. Called a traitor by his…
Yamla Pagla Deewana
The film begins in Canada, travels to Banaras and eventually makes its way to Punjab. The Father Son duo of Dharam Singh and Gajodhar Singh (Dharmendra and Bobby Deol) are the biggest conmen in Banaras. Their happy go lucky existence involves drinking and pulling off hilarious cons on unsuspecting people.…