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Michaela Coel

Michaela Coel

Acting1988Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

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).

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Acting History

2026
Mother Mary
as Sam Anselm
2024
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TVas Bev1 eps
Babygirl
Thanks
2020
I May Destroy You
TVas Arabella Essiuedu
The Graham Norton Show
TVas Self2 eps
I May Destroy You
TVExecutive Producer
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TVas Self - Guest Judge1 eps
2018
Been So Long
as Simone
Black Earth Rising
TVas Kate Ashby8 eps
2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Resistance Monitor
Black Mirror
TVas Airline Stewardess / Shania1 eps
2015
London Spy
TVas Journalist
Chewing Gum
TVas Tracey Gordon
Chewing Gum
TVOriginal Music Composer
2011
Top Boy
TVas Kayla
Comedy Blaps
TVas Tracey Gordon
1996

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/1/1988(37 years old)
Place of Birth
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK