Joseph Kloska

Joseph Anthony Kloska (born 1983) is an English actor. He began his career in radio, moving on to work in television, theatre, and film.

Joseph Kloska
Born
Joseph A. Kloska

United Kingdom
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present

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 school 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 Carlton 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
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Television

Films

Radio
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Notes
  1. Register of Marriages for Bristol Registration District, volume 22 (1979), p. 1140: Anthony J. Kloska, son of Teofil Joseph Kloska, and Susan E. Clements
  2. Shakespeare Unplugged – Presenters and guests at BBC.co.uk, accessed 15 January 2018
  3. Joseph Kloska, biography at Naxos.com, accessed 15 January 2018
  4. Starting out with the BBC Radio Drama Company dated 5 May 2015 at BBC.co.uk, accessed 15 January 2018
  5. 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
  6. Peter Ormerod, REVIEW: Power, glory and humanity in RSC's magnificent Imperium dated 8 December 2017 in Leamington Courier
  7. David Hare, The Vertical Hour, (Faber & Faber, 2013), p. 5
  8. Fast Labour at timeout.com, accessed 15 January 2018
  9. The First Domino dated 27 July 2011, UBC Media Group, accessed 15 January 2018
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