(Vera Chok co-authored the critically acclaimed and bestse...)
Vera Chok co-authored the critically acclaimed and bestselling essay anthology The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla), contributing the chapter "Yellow," which explores East and Southeast Asian identities in modern Britain.
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Vera Chok was raised in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. She attended Assunta Primary and Secondary schools in Malaysia before moving to the United Kingdom, where she studied at Abbots Bromley School in Staffordshire. She went on to earn her undergraduate degree from The Queen's College, Oxford. Her classical and physical acting training includes studies at the Poor School in London and under the renowned theatre master Philippe Gaulier in Paris.
Chok's stage work includes performing in the original West End cast of Lucy Kirkwood’s Olivier Award-winning play Chimerica (Almeida Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre) and co-starring alongside Katie Leung in The World of Extreme Happiness at The Shed (National Theatre). In 2015, she appeared in Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at the National Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner, which was broadcast internationally via National Theatre Live.
Her extensive classical and contemporary stage credits include Kenneth Branagh’s production of The Winter’s Tale and Terence Rattigan’s Harlequinade at the Garrick Theatre. In 2015, Chok was nominated for Best Debut Performance at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for her role in Xiaolu Guo’s BBC Radio 3 drama Dostoevsky and the Chickens. She also garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Mingming in Liao Yimei’s comedy-drama Rhinoceros in Love (BBC Radio 3) and played the lead role of Lila in the stage adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.
In screen and television, Vera Chok is widely recognized for her main cast role as Honour Chen-Williams in the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, as well as appearances in ITV’s Coronation Street and various independent feature films.
Writing & Creative Projects
Beyond acting, Vera is an accomplished writer and producer. She co-authored the critically acclaimed and bestselling essay anthology The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla), contributing the chapter "Yellow," which explores East and Southeast Asian identities in modern Britain.
In 2010, she founded saltpeter, an independent theatre collective, through which she produced and starred in the interdisciplinary opera-theatre adaptation Tonseisha - The Man Who Abandoned the World (Central Saint Martins). She also established the Brautigan Book Club in 2011, fostering creative responses inspired by the works of American writer Richard Brautigan.
(Vera Chok co-authored the critically acclaimed and bestse...)
