Originally posted by: gossipgurls
Wallstreet !!! r u sure 😲 Investment banker 😲😲 This guy is really crazy !
Biography
Soni was born to a Punjabi Hindu family in London, United Kingdom and attended school at St. Xavier's School, Delhi. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles summa cum laude in Economics.
Prior to his Bollywood career, Samir was an investment banker with one of the bulge bracket firms on Wall Street in New York, before coming back to India to start modeling. He has attended acting courses in New York and Los Angeles.
Personal life
Through modeling, he met his ex-spouse Rajlaxmi Khanvilkar. The two were married for six months before they divorced. After that Soni was involved in a three year relationship with the late Nafisa Joseph, Miss India 1997.
Acting career
Soni made his acting debut as Ashok Mathur in Doordarshan's A Mouthful Of Sky (1996), based on Ashok Banker's script and directed by Mahesh Bhatt. He made his film debut opposite actress Mamta Kulkarni inChina Gate (1998), though it was followed by forgettable cameos in films.