Shaka Cook

Shaka Cook

History

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.

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Shaka Cook
Shaka Cook

Movies

The Flood
The Flood
Waru Banganha
When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.
Top End Wedding
Top End Wedding
Officer Braydon
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
Kid Snow
Kid Snow
The story involves a washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow who is finally given a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When Kid Snow meets single mother Sunny, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.