Keziah Joseph (born 12 August 1992 in

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) is a British actress who trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She won the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary in 2016 and following graduation, joined the Radio Drama Company. Joseph currently plays Sheila in

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Drama series, 'Faith, Hope & Glory' and recently voiced both the Elephant leader & Gemma in Season 6 of animation series '

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: Above And Beyond (Season 2 Episode 6) - The Octonauts and the Salt-Mining Elephants' (2022). She played Fran in

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's 'Crush Hour the Musical' alongside

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and

Rory Kinnear Rory Michael Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of William S ...

(2022). Joseph made her professional theatre debut in

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's 'Silver Lining' in 2017 and has gone on to work prolifically in theatre across the UK. She played Bibi - a fictional NHS nurse - an
Betsey
- a real African American enslaved woman experimented on by J Marion Sims in the 1800s, in the award-winning play 'Family Tree' by Mojisola Adebayo, directed by

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(2021 and reprised in 2023). In 2021 she also played Tia in the award-winning Wayward Productions/Complicité play 'Language of Kindness' adapted from the novel of the same name by

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. She played Lucy Pevensie in Sally Cookson's ''The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (2019) at The

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alongside

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as Aslan and Laura Elphinstone as the White Witch. She played Polly in the Olivier-nominated 'Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear' (2019) at the National Theatre alongside

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and

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, adapted from the best selling children's books of the same title by

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. Joseph began writing plays in 2021 and her first short play, 'Vanitina' won an open call to be published in German magazine, DRAMA MAGAZIN. It was printed and sold in Berlin in 2022.

Award

In 2016 she received the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award, and was a Spotlight Prize nominee. In 2022 'Language of Kindness', which Joseph starred in, won an Offie for IDEA PRODUCTION.

Radio

In 2016 played the part of Dorothy in

's ''

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''. RADIO * 2016, Radio, Dorothy, THE ARCHERS, BBC Radio 4, Kim Greengrass * 2016, Radio, Elsie Griffiths, THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Sally Avens * 2016, Radio, Cowslip/Clover/Nethilta, WATERSHIP DOWN, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Gemma Jenkins & Marc Beeby * 2016, Radio, Lyeasha, THE THICKNESS BY DANIEL LAWRENCE TAYLOR, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Jonquil Panting * 2016, Radio, Rosalie, AGNES GREY, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Tracey Neale * 2016, Radio, Cassie, WILD THINGS BY CHARLOTTE JONES, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Liz Webb * 2016, Radio, Harriet, NORTHANGER ABBEY, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Sally Avens * 2016, Radio, Student 2/ Prisoner 3, ASSATA SHAKUR: THE FBI’S MOST WANTED WOMAN, BBC Radio 4 (RDC), Debbie Tucker Green * 2017, Radio, Lorna, DOCTOR WHO- COLD VENGEANCE, Big Finish Productions * 2017, Radio, Girl, THE MOTHER, BBC radio 4, Peter Kavanagh

Short film

Joseph played the part of Uche in ''Hush'' (Genesis Child Productions, Alex Campbell). STAGE * 2023 Stage, Bibi/Betsey, FAMILY TREE, Actors Touring Company, Matthew Xia * 2021 Stage, Tia/Bev/Ensemble, LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS, Shoreditch Town Hall, Wayward Productions * 2019 Stage, Lucy Pevensie, THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, Bridge Theatre, Sally Cookson * 2019 Stage, Polly, MR GUM AND THE DANCING BEAR, National Theatre, Amy Hodge * 2019 Stage, Joanna, SWEENEY TODD, Liverpool Everyman, Nick Bagnall. * 2017/18 Stage, Mowgli, THE JUNGLE BOOK, Royal & Derngate, Max Webster. * * 2017, Stage, Evie/Helen/Kim Kardashian/Lucy, KANYE THE FIRST, HighTide, Andrew Twyman * 2017, Stage, Hope, SILVER LINING, Rose Theatre Kingston, Rebecca Gatwood

References

External links

* * https://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/9917-0195-9071
"Throwback Thursday" interview with Keziah Joseph
21st-century English actresses English stage actresses Living people Actresses from London People from Hammersmith 1992 births Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham {{UK-actor-stub