Michaela Coel

Known for ActingBorn 1988-10-01 (age 37)Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

Black Mirror

Top Boy

National Theatre Live: Medea

I May Destroy You

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

The Graham Norton Show

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Chewing Gum

The Christophers

London Spy

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Black Earth Rising

The Daily Show

Mother Mary

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Babygirl

The Aliens

Been So Long

Monsters: Dark Continent

Proper Ladies

National Theatre Live: Home

Comedy Blaps

First Day on Earth

Bloodsport