Michaela Coel
Acting
Born 1988-10-01
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
26 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award 1
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1
OkayAfrica 100 Women 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 2016 Best Female Comedy Performance Won
Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award 1 won
- 2022 Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award Won
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1 won
- 2022 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Won
OkayAfrica 100 Women 1 won
- 2017 OkayAfrica 100 Women Won
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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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Filmography
Acting
23 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Black Mirror
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Comedy Blaps
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mother Mary
Black Earth Rising
I May Destroy You
Chewing Gum
The Christophers
Top Boy
London Spy
The Aliens
Monsters: Dark Continent
First Day on Earth
Been So Long
National Theatre Live: Home
National Theatre Live: Medea
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
Writing
5 credits
I May Destroy You
Chewing Gum
First Day on Earth
Bloodsport
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
Producing
3 credits
Directing
2 credits
Other credits
2 credits
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