Sonya Cooke(I)

Sonya Cooke is a film, television, and theatre actor. A member of SAG-AFTRA and EMC candidate, Sonya's career includes streaming and network television, feature film, regional and NY theatre, musical premieres, commercials, and voice-over credits. Most recently, she acted in Government Cheese on AppleTV+ and Chicago PD on NBC. Last summer, she joined the acting company of New Swan Shakespeare Festival and played "Leonata" in Much Ado About Nothing. Other career highlights include Warner Brother's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Louie on FX, and Time Sensative at The Guthrie Theatre. The short film she wrote, directed, and starred in, An Audience, was recognized at film festivals around the country, winning "Best Short Short Film" at the Houston Short Short Short Film Festival. She trained at UC-Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts where she achieved an MFA in Acting, and previously she studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she received a BFA in Drama.