Samuel Pressly Coker IV was born on November 22nd in Alma, Michigan, to parents Susan (McCall) and Samuel Pressly Coker III, and has younger twin sisters, Katherine and Kathleen. He is a classically trained actor, growing up on the northeast American stages of Shakespeare, and training primarily out of New York City.

Pressly made his television debut in the long-running series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2010), and has subsequently appeared in the television series Suits (2011), NCIS (2014), Real Husbands of Hollywood (2015), The Affair (2015), and General Hospital (2018).