Liza Koshy
Description
Liza Koshy is an American actress and media personality who has expanded her career into voice acting for animated films. Born Elizabeth Shaila Koshy on March 31, 1996, in Texas, she first gained prominence as a digital content creator before transitioning to mainstream entertainment. Her background includes hosting the Nickelodeon game show Double Dare, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, and starring in the YouTube Premium comedy series Liza on Demand.
As a voice actor, Koshy is known for bringing energetic and distinct vocal performances to animated features. Her most prominent role is Arcee, the female Autobot, in the 2023 film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. This science fiction action film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., marked a significant entry in the long-running Transformers franchise. In this role, Koshy voiced the character of a Cybertronian Autobot who fights alongside Optimus Prime. Prior to this, she voiced Zipp Storm in the 2021 Netflix animated film My Little Pony: A New Generation, a role that introduced her to family audiences.
Koshy continued building her animation portfolio in 2023 by providing the voice of Margot in the DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. She has also been cast in upcoming projects, including the 2025 Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters, where she voices the Host character. Earlier in her career, she voiced Owl in the animated short film Crow: The Legend, which premiered on her YouTube channel in 2018.
She moves fluidly between live-action comedies and animated voice work, but no pattern of recurring collaborations with specific animation directors or voice studios has a consistent enough record to highlight as a major theme in her voice acting career.
As a voice actor, Koshy is known for bringing energetic and distinct vocal performances to animated features. Her most prominent role is Arcee, the female Autobot, in the 2023 film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. This science fiction action film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., marked a significant entry in the long-running Transformers franchise. In this role, Koshy voiced the character of a Cybertronian Autobot who fights alongside Optimus Prime. Prior to this, she voiced Zipp Storm in the 2021 Netflix animated film My Little Pony: A New Generation, a role that introduced her to family audiences.
Koshy continued building her animation portfolio in 2023 by providing the voice of Margot in the DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. She has also been cast in upcoming projects, including the 2025 Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters, where she voices the Host character. Earlier in her career, she voiced Owl in the animated short film Crow: The Legend, which premiered on her YouTube channel in 2018.
She moves fluidly between live-action comedies and animated voice work, but no pattern of recurring collaborations with specific animation directors or voice studios has a consistent enough record to highlight as a major theme in her voice acting career.
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- EnglishAnime overview: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts