person

Michaela Coel

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1988-10-01

Place of Birth

Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

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.

Also Known For

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National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

Mar 19, 2014

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National Theatre Archive: Home

Aug 12, 2013

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NA

Mother Mary

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74

National Theatre Live: Medea

Sep 04, 2014

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47

Monsters: Dark Continent

Oct 09, 2014

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56

Been So Long

Oct 12, 2018

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67

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Dec 13, 2017

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71

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Nov 09, 2022

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NA

The Christophers

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72

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Oct 03, 2019

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63

The Daily Show

Jul 22, 1996

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70

London Spy

Nov 09, 2015

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72

Chewing Gum

Oct 06, 2015

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74

Top Boy

Oct 31, 2011

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56

The Aliens

Mar 08, 2016

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83

Black Mirror

Dec 04, 2011

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83

Black Mirror

Dec 04, 2011

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67

Black Earth Rising

Sep 10, 2018

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65

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Feb 01, 2024

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59

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Feb 17, 2014

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74

I May Destroy You

Jun 07, 2020

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71

The Graham Norton Show

Feb 22, 2007

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First Day on Earth