Varun Sood (actor)

Sood was born on 1 April 1995 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal.^[1] He grew up in Delhi.^[2] His grandfather and father served in the Indian Army, and Varun had initially planned to follow in their footsteps.^[3] He completed his primary school education at Army Public School.^[4] During his school and college days, he played basketball and shot put, even competing at the national level.^[5]

In 2017, Sood was dating Benafsha Soonawalla but they broke up soon after Soonawalla's participation in Bigg Boss 11.^[6]

In 2018, he started dating Divya Agarwal. They worked together on MTV Roadies, MTV Ace of Space and Ragini MMS: Returns. After four years of relationship, they split in March 2022.^[7]

Varun started his career as a fitness trainer, and then went on to become an MTV VJ.^[8]

Sood then started participating in reality shows. He has taken part in multiple reality shows so far, including MTV Roadies season 12, MTV Splitsvilla season 9, Ace of Space 1, MTV Roadies: Real Heroes, MTV Roadies season 17 and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 11.

In 2019, he made his acting debut with ALTBalaji's Ragini MMS: Returns as Rahul opposite Divya Agarwal.^[9] In 2022, he made a special appearance in Karan Johar's Jugjugg Jeeyo as Gaurav opposite Prajakta Koli.^[10] In 2023, he was seen as Jacob in season 2 of Potluck on SonyLIV.^[11]

In January 2024, he starred as Ahaan Kothari in Disney+ Hotstar's Karmma Calling alongside Raveena Tandon and Namrata Sheth.^[12] Later that year, he appeared in Amazon Prime Video's Naam Namak Nishan opposite Helly Shah,^[13] and in Call Me Bae alongside Ananya Panday.^[14] He also hosted Reality Ranis Of The Jungle on Discovery Channel.^[15]