Cokey is an actor, writer, voice artist and comedian originally from South Africa. In South Africa, he began his career in theatre and co-wrote a play that same year that later won the ‘Best New Play’ award at Adams Playwright festival in Durban. 

Cokey is one of the only 30 people in South Africa to be chosen to under improvisation theatre luminary Augusto Boal.

In 2008 he was nominated as best supporting actor in a feature film (South African Film And Television Awards 09) for his role as Alfonso, the albino serial killer, in quirky South African comedy Big Fellas. He has voiced several characters on the hit kids show Urbo and for various BBC Radio4 productions.

Cokey's mother is an award-winning PR practitioner and founder of Meritus Media. Together with his brother, alongside acting and modelling, Cokey and his brother now run Meritus.