Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 01, 1988
Place of Birth
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Credits
26 titles
Michaela Coel
Biography
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson FRSL (born 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British actress, filmmaker, and poet. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum (2015–2017), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, and the BBC One/HBO comedy-drama series I May Destroy You (2020), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 2021. For her work on I May Destroy You, Coel was the first Black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Coel is also known for her work in other Netflix productions, including guest-starring in the series Black Mirror (2016–2017), starring as Kate Ashby in the series Black Earth Rising (2018), and as Simone in the film Been So Long (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michaela Coel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Mother Mary
Sam Anselm
Proper Ladies
Executive Producer
The Christophers
Lori Butler
Babygirl
Thanks
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Bev
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Aneka
I May Destroy You
Arabella Essiuedu
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Guest Judge
Been So Long
Simone
Black Earth Rising
Kate Ashby
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Resistance Monitor
The Aliens
Lilyhot
London Spy
Journalist
Chewing Gum
Tracey Gordon
Monsters: Dark Continent
Kelly
National Theatre Live: Medea
Nurse
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
Tracey Gordon
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
National Theatre Live: Home
Young Mum / Portugal
Black Mirror
Airline Stewardess
Comedy Blaps
Tracey Gordon
Top Boy
Kayla
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Daily Show
Self
First Day on Earth
Henri
Bloodsport
Director