Shaka Cook

Shaka Cook

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Biography: Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), 2012. Theatre: Wangarra in The Secret River (2016) and Ngalamalum in The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company, 2017 and 2019); Fingerbone Bill in Storm Boy (Sydney Theatre Company); Jasper Jones in Jasper Jones (Queensland Theatre Company); The Wind in the Willows (La Boite); Black Diggers (Queensland Theatre Company). Television: Sam in Operation Buffalo (ABC); Tom in Black Comedy (ABC); Luke in The Broken Shore (Essential Media); Warrior in Cleverman (ABC). Film: Waru in The Flood (Wagtail Films); Officer Braydon in Top End Wedding (Goalpost Pictures). This is Shaka’s professional musical theatre debut. Shaka is a proud member of MEAA since 2020.

Movies

Kid Snow
Kid Snow

A washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow is finally faced with a chance to redeem himself when he is o...

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Top End Wedding
Top End Wedding

Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother wh...

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The Flood
The Flood

When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey ...

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