Biography

Sonam Wangdue is known for MissTaken (2009), Dreaming Lhasa (2005) and We're No Monks (2004).

He is a stand-up comedian and actor based in New York City.

Studied film and stage acting at the Imago School of Acting and Padmini Kolhapure Acting School in Delhi, India.

He was born and grew up in Dharamsala, India.

[An Oral History of Tibetans in New York City, December 2015] You have to forget yourself and get the characters, and I'm not saying a really good actor, method actor, but understanding that character for a moment you forget yourself. A moment that is so beautiful that you forget yourself, and you take a new person in yourself. So that is kind of liberation from yourself.