Liza Koshy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1996-03-31

Place of Birth

Houston, Texas, USA

Liza Koshy

Biography

Elizabeth Shaila Koshy (born March 31, 1996) is an American YouTuber, media personality and actress. Her main channel has amassed almost 17 million subscribers, and her two channels have over 3 billion views combined. She has received four Streamy Awards, four Teen Choice Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award. Koshy began her career on Vine in 2013 before starting a YouTube channel. She made her acting debut as Aday Walker in Tyler Perry's horror comedy film Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016). She went on to star as Violet Adams in the horror drama series Freakish (2016–2017) and The Explorer in the YouTube Premium mystery series Escape the Night (2017–2019). She was also a correspondent for the MTV television series Total Request Live (2017–2018). Koshy co-created, produced and starred as the title character in the YouTube Premium comedy series Liza on Demand (2018–2021), which earned her several accolades, and hosted the Nickelodeon game show revival Double Dare(2018–2019), for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She starred in the Netflix dance comedy film Work It (2020). She had voice roles in the animated adventure film My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) and the science fiction film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). Koshy was included in the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list, the Time 2019 list of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet and its 100 Next list that same year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liza Koshy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2025
The Naked Gun as Detective Barnes
2025
KPop Demon Hunters as Host (voice)
2025
Summer of 69 as Angel
2024
A Family Affair as Eugenie
2024
Players as Ashley
2023
Good Burger 2 as Wilma the Technician
2023
Cat Person as Beth
2023
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Margo (voice)
2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Arcee (voice)
2022
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday as Self - Contestant
2022
The Tiny Chef Show as Liza
2022
Mo as Talia
2022
Hamster & Gretel as Veronica Hill (voice)
2022
Password as Self - Celebrity Guest
2022
Dancing with Myself as Self - Judge
2022
Is It Cake? as Self - Judge
2021
The Ghost and Molly McGee as Jinx (voice)
2021
My Little Pony: A New Generation as Zipp Storm (voice)
2021
Snacked as Self
2021
Chopped Next Gen as Host
2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune as Self
2020
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out as Self
2020
Work It as Jasmine Hale
2020
Nickelodeon's Unfiltered as Self
2020
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 as Self
2020
Floored
2020
The Great Global Cleanup as Self
2020
Punk'd as Self
2019
Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? as Liza Koshy (voice)
2019
All That as Self
2018
Crow: The Legend as Owl (voice)
2018
Liza on Demand as Liza Hertzler
2018
Double Dare as Self - Host
2018
What the Fit as Self
2016
Jingle Ballin' as Herself
2016
Boo! A Madea Halloween as Aday Walker
2016
FML as Princess Aubrey
2016
Freakish as Violet Adams
2016
Escape the Night as The Explorer
2016
To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
2015
Hot Ones as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2009
The Streamy Awards as Self - Presenter
2005
Hell's Kitchen as Self - Restaurant Patron
1996
The Daily Show as Self
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1974
American Music Awards as Self - Presenter
1972
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest as Self - Co-Host
The Man with the Bag