12 Facts About Vera Chok

Vera Chok is a Malaysian actress and writer based in the United Kingdom, who has featured in various stage, screen and radio roles.

Vera Chok played the part of Ming Ming, a female migrant worker, in a production about the world of migrant workers in rapidly emerging modern China.

Vera Chok appeared in the TV miniseries version of Chimerica on Channel 4 in 2019, alongside Katie Leung.

In 2015, Vera Chok appeared in Nicholas Hytner's final production as artistic director for the National Theatre, Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem.

Vera Chok subsequently had roles in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of The Winter's Tale at the Garrick Theatre in late 2015 and an associated work, Terence Rattigan's Harlequinade, at the Garrick, which humorously depicts a postwar CEMA-sponsored theatrical troop at a provincial theatre in Brackley making a hash of Romeo and Juliet and "the intrigues and dalliances of the company members".

Vera Chok was nominated in the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards for her performance in the BBC Radio 3 production of British Chinese novelist Xiaolu Guo's first play, Dostoevsky And The Chickens, in which she co-starred.

Vera Chok appeared in Jingo and played the lead role of Lila in the stage adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Firework-Maker's Daughter - described by The Stage as a 'poignant performance'.

In December 2021, Vera Chok began playing Honour Chen-Williams, a prison psychiatrist, in the British TV soap Hollyoaks.

Vera Chok's character was one of parents of the newly introduced Chen-Williams family, alongside her delivery driver husband Dave, played by Dominic Power.

Vera Chok played the lead role in the 2022 Forest Fringe film Dream Agency, directed and written by Deborah Pearson and Andy Field, which won the Best Micro-Budget film award in 2023 from the London Independent Film Festival.

Vera Chok produced and starred in their opera production Tonseisha - The Man Who Abandoned the World, which is adapted from the play by Erik Patterson.

Vera Chok published a collection of poetry, Angry Yellow Woman, in 2024.