Biography
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson FRSL (born 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.
Filmography
all 23
TV Shows 13
Movies 10
self 4
Producer 2
Creator 1
Babygirl (2024)
I May Destroy You (2020)
RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019)
Been So Long (2018)
Black Earth Rising (2018)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
The Aliens (2016)
London Spy (2015)
Chewing Gum (2015)
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams (2014)
National Theatre Archive: Home (2013)
Black Mirror (2011)
Top Boy (2011)
First Day on Earth
Gallery
Information
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1988-10-01 (36 years old)
Birth Name
Michaela-Moses Ewuraba O Boakye-Collinson
Birth Place
Aldgate, United Kingdom
Citizenships
United Kingdom
Residences
East London, United Kingdom
Also Known As
Michaela Ewuraba Collinson, Michaela Boakye-Collinson, Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson, Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, Михаэла Коэл
Awards
Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award, OkayAfrica 100 Women, British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance
This article uses material from Wikipedia.
Last updated:
,
-
Michaela Coel
- Filmography
- Information
- Related Persons