Kosha Engler
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Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Kosha moved to London in 2005.

From February - June 2010, Kosha plays Marie in a No 1 UK Tour of When Harry Met Sally directed by Michael Gyngell for Jamie Wilson Productions, with Rupert Hill and Sarah Jayne Dunn. Kosha is going on as Sally on Friday 14th May at the Manchester Opera House. Visit the show's website here.

She was nominated for ‘Best Actress’ in the 2009 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for her portrayal of Carol in David Mamet’s Oleanna at the Bolton Octagon. Other UK theatre includes Cat’s-Paw by William Mastrosimone (King’s Head Theatre, Time Out Critics’ Choice), Twelfth Night the Musical! with Gyles Brandreth (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), Women of Manhattan by John Patrick Shanley, the award-winning musical Failed States and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

While in the USA Kosha appeared regularly in Washington DC’s finest theatres in such plays as She Stoops to Conquer and Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby (Studio Theatre), Patience by Jason Sherman (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co.) and Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Round House Theatre).

Film and TV credits include Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (ITV/Dangerous Films), Alive: Swimming with Sharks (Discovery/Darlow Smithson), The Wire (HBO), Superstorm (BBC), A Dirty Shame (New Line) and Tuck Everlasting (Disney). Radio credits include Dr. No with Toby Stephens as James Bond, With Great Pleasure alongside Sir Donald Sinden (both BBC Radio 4), and several radio plays for LA Theatre Works. She has also voiced the heroines of numerous video games.

Kosha received a B.A. in Theatre (Acting) from the University of Maryland College Park, where she earned both a Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship and an Irene Ryan Acting Award.

Visit her blog at yankeeinlondon.net.