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Michaela Coel
AKA: Michaela Ewuraba Collinson · Michaela Boakye-Collinson · Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson · Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson
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Born: 1988
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
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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).
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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
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Bev
2024 · US
I May Destroy You
Arabella Essiuedu
2020 · GB
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Guest Judge
2019 · GB
Black Earth Rising
Kate Ashby
2018 · GB
The Aliens
Lilyhot
2016 · GB
London Spy
Journalist
2015 · GB
Chewing Gum
Tracey Gordon
2015 · GB
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014 · US
Full Credits
| Show / Title | Year | Credit / Role |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2024 | Bev |
| I May Destroy You | 2020 | Arabella Essiuedu |
| I May Destroy You | 2020 | Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
| RuPaul's Drag Race UK | 2019 | Self - Guest Judge |
| Black Earth Rising | 2018 | Kate Ashby |
| The Aliens | 2016 | Lilyhot |
| London Spy | 2015 | Journalist |
| Chewing Gum | 2015 | Tracey Gordon |
| Chewing Gum | 2015 | Original Music Composer |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2014 | Self - Guest |
| Black Mirror | 2011 | Airline Stewardess |
| Comedy Blaps | 2011 | Tracey Gordon |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2007 | Self |
| The Daily Show | 1996 | Self |