About Michaela Coel
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born 1 October 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. 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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Michaela Coel has appeared in 8 movies.
These include Been So Long, National Theatre Live: Medea, National Theatre Live: Home, National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams, Mother Mary, Monsters: Dark Continent, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.TV Credits
Michaela Coel has appeared in 12 TV Series.
These include Black Earth Rising, Top Boy, I May Destroy You, Chewing Gum, The Aliens, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, London Spy, Black Mirror, The Graham Norton Show, The Daily Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.