Michaela Coel
Known For
Acting
Born
1988-10-01 in Tower 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michaela Coel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
as Self
Black Mirror
as Airline Stewardess
Black Mirror
as Shania
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Aneka
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Resistance Monitor
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Bev
Black Earth Rising
as Kate Ashby
London Spy
as Journalist
I May Destroy You
as Arabella Essiuedu
Chewing Gum
as Tracey Gordon
Top Boy
as Kayla
The Christophers
as Lori
Comedy Blaps
as Tracey Gordon
Mother Mary
as Sam Anselm
The Aliens
as Lilyhot
Monsters: Dark Continent
as Kelly
First Day on Earth
as Henri