latest Projects
S2 Ep1 - As Jean opposite Ross McCall (Band of Brothers) as Sheriff Jeff. Dir: Michael Dinner
News Narrator, Dir: J Blakeson (I Care a Lot)
Ep 1 - As Queen Olympias opposite Buck Braithwaite as Alexander
S2 Ep8 “Jerusalem”
As Marsha Costello. Writer: Abi Morgan, Dir: Lucy Forbes, Sister productions
As Shade. Developed by Starbreeze Studios
Kosha Engler is an award-winning actress and voice artist with bases in London and the US East Coast.
Kosha [kah-shuh]
ABOUT
Kosha began her career in Baltimore, Maryland where she made her TV debut in HBO’s The Wire.
Her ‘plucky magnanimous warmth’ (Boston Globe), ‘radiance’ (Washington Post) and vulnerability in a host of ingénue roles saw her win the Irene Ryan Acting Award, appear in Disney’s family drama Tuck Everlasting with Sissy Spacek, as well as on the finest stages in the region.
Kosha moved to London for love in 2005. She soon established herself with a ‘faultless’ (WhatsOnStage) performance as Carol in David Mamet’s Oleanna, which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. In a national UK tour of When Harry Met Sally Kosha played acerbic New Yorker Marie with ‘sublime comic timing’ (WhatsOnStage). Most recently, Kosha was ‘superb’ (Radio Times) in a bold three-person Hamlet where she played Gertrude, a ‘mesmerising Ophelia’ (Love London Love Culture), Horatio and Rosencrantz.
While in the UK Kosha has expanded her acting experience from theatre to film, TV, voice over and games including motion capture. Now a mother of two boys, she brings presence, authority, sophistication and elegance to roles as diverse as a rebel commander in the game Crysis 3, the voice of Maybelline UK, a seductive American heiress in the period drama Victoria for ITV/PBS Masterpiece and the formidable Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great in Alexander: The Making of a God for Netflix. Kosha plays Mayor Mitchell’s wife in The Batman starring Robert Pattinson directed by Matt Reeves.
Kosha loves to sing jazz, blues and country around town - solo, in a trio and in a pop choir. She has been a regular player in LiveWired, a London-based comedy improvisation troupe.
Other endeavours:
Kosha has a 40-hour Teacher Training certificate in the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga from David Swenson, one of the world’s foremost practitioners. She loves games and puzzles of all kinds especially Escape Rooms, Hearthstone, Bridge and Tak.
film & TV
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Behind the Scenes
writing
Kosha is an emerging script writer supported by 25 years as an award-winning actress on stage and screen, and many years as a copywriter. Having read and performed hundreds of scripts she has a well-honed sense of drama, dialogue, pace and plot. She’s enjoys collaborative problem-solving with other creatives and thrives in a team. She’s interested in both drama and comedy led by strong flawed female characters, and drawn to themes of ambition, identity and what lies beneath our facades.
Her latest feature is a rom-com set in Norway, co-written with Lucy Newman-Williams. It’s complete and out to producers.
Kosha is currently developing a dark mockumentary short film to produce in 2025. Set in a near future, For Your Entertainment follows TV actress Kayla’s desperate bid to save theatre by cloning herself for a world-first: an all-Kayla Hamlet. What starts as an absurd quest for greatness turns tragic, spiralling into a disturbing exploration of how far we’ll go – and what we’ll sacrifice – for “art”.
The Fantasy Ridge reading cast
Ronan Summers, Jane Perry, Mitchell Mullen, Kosha Engler, David Menkin and Melli Marie.
Kosha’s female-led action/drama feature The Fantasy Ridge is a Final Draft Big Break Top 10 Finalist, Austin Film Festival Second-Rounder and Scriptapalooza Quarter-Finalist. It's about an estranged sister and brother who attempt to climb the last unconquered route to Everest's summit -- the one that killed their father. The story is fiction, the place is real. Legendary explorer George Mallory said the route is so impossible it can be climbed “only in the imagination.” To date, all attempts have failed.
Her short drama script Gelert, a modern take on the Welsh legend, was shortlisted for the BBC Wales/It’s My Shout Script Call, and Black Lotus was a finalist in the London Screenwriters’ Festival The Impact 50 project,
Screenwriting courses include:
TV Writing Intensive with Pilar Alessandra of On the Page
London Screenwriters' Festival - three consecutive years
The ProSeries at ScreenwritingU.com, a six-month intensive, online professional screenwriting program completed in 2013
Women in Film and Television UK talks and workshops, ongoing
Contact
For work enquiries please get in touch with Kosha’s agents.
acting
Luc Chaudhary
International Artists Management
+44 (0)20 7794 3705
info@internationalartistsmanagement.co.uk
internationalartists.co.uk
voice
Hobsons Voices
+44 (0)20 8995 3628 (opt 1)
voices@hobsons-international.com
hobsons-international.com