Michaela Coel
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1988
- Place of birth
- Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Biography
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson FRSL (born October 1, 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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Movies with Michaela Coel
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 · ★ 6.7
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022 · ★ 7.0
- Monsters: Dark Continent 2014 · ★ 4.7
- Mother Mary 2026 · ★ 5.6
- The Christophers 2026 · ★ 6.8
- Been So Long 2018 · ★ 5.5
- National Theatre Live: Medea 2014 · ★ 7.4
- National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams 2014 · ★ 10.0
- National Theatre Live: Home 2013
- The Making of Mother Mary 2026