[1] She received her early education at St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg,[2] and later earned a bachelor's degree in English literature with a major in philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

[10][11] She also performed under the name of Angeliki in dual language productions (Greek/English) based on improvisations about issues that touched the Greek Cypriot community, and the tragedy of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Attilas '74.

[17][18] On film, Rockas has appeared in secondary roles: the Maintenance Woman in Peter Hyams's Outland, Henrietta in The Witches directed by Nicolas Roeg,[19] and as Nereida in Oh Babylon!

[20][21] In Greece she has played the lead role, Ms Ortiki in Thodoros Maragos's television series Emmones Idees[22][23] with Vangelis Mourikis as Socratis.

[26][27] It was first announced on 9 April 1981 in the Theatre News, page (2), by the editor of The Stage, describing the company's formation "to assert a multi-racial drama policy",[28] with their performance of the revival of The Balcony by Jean Genet.