Michaela Coel
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1988 (age 38)
- Birthplace
- 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michaela Coel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
First Day on Earth
TV · as Henri
Mother Mary
Movie · as Sam Anselm
The Christophers
Movie · as Lori Butler
The Making of Mother Mary
Movie · as Self
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TV · as Bev · 1 ep
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie · as Aneka
I May Destroy You
TV · as Arabella Essiuedu · 12 eps
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep
Been So Long
Movie · as Simone
Black Earth Rising
TV · as Kate Ashby · 8 eps
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Movie · as Resistance Monitor
The Aliens
TV · as Lilyhot · 6 eps
London Spy
TV · as Journalist · 1 ep
Chewing Gum
TV · as Tracey Gordon · 12 eps
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
Movie · as Tracey Gordon
National Theatre Live: Medea
Movie · as Nurse
Monsters: Dark Continent
Movie · as Kelly
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
National Theatre Live: Home
Movie · as Young Mum / Portugal
Top Boy
TV · as Kayla · 2 eps
Black Mirror
TV · as Airline Stewardess, Shania · 1 ep
Comedy Blaps
TV · as Tracey Gordon · 2 eps
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep