Actor

Michaela Coel

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Movies: 12Series: 12Crew credits: 6

TMDB ID: 1368012

IMDb ID: nm3948190

Known for: Acting

Born: October 1, 1988

Age: 38

Place of birth: Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1996 - 2026

Years active: 31

Average TMDB rating: 6.55

Wikidata: Q18637243

Also known as

Michaela Ewuraba Collinson • Michaela Boakye-Collinson • Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson • Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson

Other jobs

Executive Producer (2)Director (1)Original Music Composer (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)

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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).