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English actor
Joseph Kloska
Born Joseph A. Kloska
United Kingdom
Occupation Actor Years active 2006–present
Joseph Anthony Kloska (born 1983) is an English actor. He began his career in radio, moving on to work in television, theatre, and film.
Life
Named after a Polish grandfather, Teofil Joseph Kloska, who had settled in England,
[1] Kloska was brought up in
Cornwall . As a child, he was taken to see a grisly outdoor production of
Macbeth on
Bodmin Moor , which made a great impression on him.
[2] After leaving Sir James Smith's Comprehensive School in Camelford, he attended
University College London to read History and French, before training for an acting career at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ,
[3] where he was in the same year group as
Pip Carter ,
Kathy Rose O'Brien ,
Arthur Darvill ,
Sia Berkeley ,
Harry Hepple ,
Nathaniel Martello-White , and
Danielle Ryan . He graduated in 2006.
[4]
His first career move was to join the
BBC
Radio Drama Company , for which he auditioned when about to leave RADA, winning the
Carleton Hobbs Bursary and gaining a contract for five months' work which began a few days after the end of term. He has called this one of the best opportunities of his career, leading to work on many radio productions and introducing him to "the slightly weird world of working as an actor".
[4]
From extensive work in radio, Kloska went on to gain
supporting roles in theatre and television and also
cameo appearances in films.
In a
Royal Shakespeare Company production of
Imperium in 2017–2018, Kloska played the slave-narrator
Tiro ,
[5] with one reviewer commenting on his "irrepressible wit and verve".
[6]
Theatre
This list is not complete
The Vertical Hour (
Royal Court Theatre , 2008), as Dennis Dutton
[7]
Fast Labour (
Hampstead Theatre , 2008), as Andrius
[8]
Written on the Heart (
Royal Shakespeare Company ,
Swan Theatre , (2011–2012) as
Samuel Ward
Imperium (Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, 2017–2018), as
Marcus Tullius Tiro
[5]
Richard III (touring production,
Liverpool Playhouse ,
Rose Theatre Kingston , 2023), as Duke of Buckingham.
[9]
Television
Films
Radio
This list is not complete
King Lear (
BBC World Service , recorded at the
Globe Theatre , 2006)
[4]
The Brothers Karamazov (BBC Radio 4, 2006)
[4]
Tomorrow, Today! (
BBC Radio 4 , 2006–2008), as Hugo Kellerman
Peter Pan in Scarlet (BBC Radio 4, 2006), as Tootles
The Midnight Folk (BBC Radio 4, 2006)
Number 10 (BBC Radio 4 drama series), as Ollie Armstrong
Oneira (
BBC Radio 4 Extra , 2007)
Caesar! (2007 series), as
Crispus
The Pattern of Painful Adventures (BBC Radio 3 play, 2008), as
Edmund Shakespeare
Howards End (BBC Radio 4, 2009), as Charles Wilcox
Towards Zero (BBC Radio 4, 2010), as Latimer
The First Domino (
BBC Radio 3 , 2010)
[10]
Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles (2011), as Cullen
I, Claudius (BBC Radio 4, 2010)
The Acheron Pulse (2012), as Dukhin
The Masters of Luxor (
Big Finish Productions , 2012)
Pilgrim (BBC Radio 4, 2016), as Mr Hibbens
Notes
^ Register of Marriages for Bristol Registration District, volume 22 (1979), p. 1140: Anthony J. Kloska, son of Teofil Joseph Kloska, and Susan E. Clements
^
Shakespeare Unplugged – Presenters and guests at BBC.co.uk, accessed 15 January 2018
^
Joseph Kloska , biography at Naxos.com, accessed 15 January 2018
^
a
b
c
d
Starting out with the BBC Radio Drama Company dated 5 May 2015 at BBC.co.uk, accessed 15 January 2018
^
a
b
Michael Billington ,
Imperium review – Robert Harris's Cicero epic is a Roman triumph for the RSC dated 8 December 2017 in
The Guardian online, accessed 15 January 2018
^ Peter Ormerod,
REVIEW: Power, glory and humanity in RSC's magnificent Imperium dated 8 December 2017 in
Leamington Courier
^
David Hare , The Vertical Hour , (Faber & Faber, 2013), p. 5
^
Fast Labour at timeout.com, accessed 15 January 2018
^
"Richard III // Reviews" . Everyman&Playhouse .
^
The First Domino dated 27 July 2011,
UBC Media Group , accessed 15 January 2018
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