Sumit Kaul (born 10 March 1978) is an Indian actor and model known for playing Umar Riaz in the web series Tanaav.
Kaul was born on March 10, 1978, in Bombay, Maharashtra into a Kashmiri Pandit family that left Kashmir Valley in the 1990s. He started his acting career in the year 2000 with Ek Jute, a theatre group headed by Nadira Babbar where he spent the next four years doing several Hindi and Urdu plays. He has also worked in the films like Haider, Laila Majnu, Mulk and Hamid and has been part of TV shows like Laagi Tujhse Lagan, ‘’Nazar’’ and web shows like Tanaav. His most recent role is of Inspector Sandeep Tomar in the (Movie) ‘’Afwaah.''