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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1988-10-01 (36 years old)

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).

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Known For

Acting

2024

2022

2020

I May Destroy You as Arabella Essiuedu

2019

RuPaul's Drag Race UK as Self - Guest Judge

2018

Been So Long as Simone
Black Earth Rising as Kate Ashby

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Resistance Monitor

2016

The Aliens as Lilyhot

2015

London Spy as Journalist
Chewing Gum as Tracey Gordon

2014

2013

National Theatre Archive: Home as Young Mum / Portugal

2011

Top Boy as Kayla
Black Mirror as Airline Stewardess
Black Mirror as Shania

2007

1996

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Crew

2024

Babygirl as Thanks

Sound

2015

Chewing Gum as Original Music Composer

Production

2020

I May Destroy You as Executive Producer

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First Day on Earth as Executive Producer

Directing

2020

I May Destroy You as Director

Writing

2020

Creator

2020

2015

Chewing Gum as Creator

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