| Intro | South African actor | ||
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Actor Television actor |
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South Africa Canada |
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| Type | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth |
8 February 1987, Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa |
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| Age | 33 years | ||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||
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Shannon Kook is a South African actor.
Early life
Kook-Chun was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa to a Mauritian father of Chinese descent and a South African mother of Cape Coloured descent. He has 3 younger siblings, a sister from his mother’s side who is studying in Cape Town and two sisters from his father’s side, based in Canada. He then moved to Montreal in order to attend the National Theatre School of Canada.
Career
Kook’s first on screen role was in the Canadian television series Being Erica in 2009. He is best known internationally for his roles as Zane Park on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2010–2011) and as Duncan on Shadowhunters (2017).
In 2014, Kook was chosen as one of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Rising Stars, a distinction that the festival gives annually to spotlight four up and coming Canadian actors. Between 2015 and 2016, Kook starred in the popular web series Carmilla. In 2017, he was featured in the web series Running With Violet.
On January 19, 2018, it was announced that Kook will be playing Lucas, a mysterious new character on The CW’s The 100. This turned out to be a red herring, and Kook was in actual fact playing Jordan Jasper Green, the son of Monty Green and Harper McIntyre, named after Monty’s best friend Jasper Jordan.
Shannon has outside interests in dance, martial arts as well as ambitions behind camera in directing and photography.