Actor

Shaka Cook

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.

Notable work

7.7
The Leftovers (2014)
as Indigenous Officer #1

Often works with

Dalara Williams
2 titles together
Top End Wedding, The Flood
Taylor Wiese
2 titles together
Top End Wedding, Top End Wedding
Benedict Wall
2 titles together
Operation Buffalo, The Flood

Full filmography · 6

Kid Snow
as Armless
2024
The Flood
as Waru Banganha
2020
Top End Wedding
as Officer Braydon
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