Michaela Coel

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1988-10-01 (36 years old)

Place of Birth Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

Also Known As Michaela Ewuraba Collinson, Michaela Boakye-Collinson, Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson, Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, Михаэла Коэл

Michaela Coel

Biography

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born October 1, 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. 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).

Known For

Actor

2024
2020
I May Destroy You

as Arabella Essiuedu

2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK

as Self - Guest Judge

2018
Been So Long

as Simone

2018
Black Earth Rising

as Kate Ashby

2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Resistance Monitor

2016
The Aliens

as Lilyhot

2015
London Spy

as Journalist

2015
Chewing Gum

as Tracey Gordon

2013
National Theatre Archive: Home

as Young Mum / Portugal

2011
Black Mirror

as Airline Stewardess

2011
Black Mirror

as Shania

2011
Top Boy

as Kayla

1996

Creator

2020
2015
Chewing Gum

as Creator

Producer

First Day on Earth

as Executive Producer

2020
I May Destroy You

as Executive Producer

Sound

2015
Chewing Gum

as Original Music Composer

Director

2020
I May Destroy You

as Director

Writer

2020