Film
Cook's latest feature is heist film Get Lucky in which he plays a professional thief alongside Luke Treadaway. Cook trained at The Second City in Chicago and Los Angeles. He has also studied at The Actors Temple with lead tutor Mark Radcliffe and been coached by Paul Gregory. He has played the lead role in ten British short film dramas, most notably the psychotic character Greg in Andrew Saunder's and Stephen Frears Striklem . In 2007 he wrote, produced and starred in his own Comedy short, The Enchanter: The Crime Fighting Magician, a spoof of 1970s detective series, directed by Adrian Vitoria. Cook was recently seen in cinemas in the feature film Outside Bet directed by Sacha Bennett (2011) alongside Bob Hoskins, Phil Davis and Jenny Agutter
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