
Sonia Denis
Acting
Biography
Sonia Denis is a New York-based comedian by way of Chicago, IL. Sonia's stand-up can be described as idiosyncratic, frenetic and another cool adjective. Sonia was recently named one of Vulture's Comics to Watch and is an Emmy-nominated writer whose work has been featured on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Sonia co-starred in the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls and has also appeared on Adult Swim’s BIRDGIRL, HBO’s High Maintenance, and Netflix’s Bojack Horseman. Her standup was featured on The New Negroes on Comedy Central.
Filmography
10 credits
Got Game?
Movie • 2020
Banana Peel #3

Set It Up
Movie • 2018
Ring Salesman

Masculine/masculine
Movie • 2018
Mac

Sweatland
Movie • 2022
Novy Pottinger(voice)

Birdgirl
TV • 2021
Evie 'The Big Ten' (voice)

BoJack Horseman
TV • 2014
Jen (voice)

Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring
TV • 2019
Herself

Brown Girls
TV • 2017
Patricia

Ironheart
TV • 2025
Clown

High Maintenance
TV • 2016