Michaela Coel
Born: 1988-10-01 in Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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
2026
- Mother Mary as Sam Anselm
2025
- The Christophers as Lori
2024
- Babygirl ... (Thanks)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Bev
2022
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Aneka
2020
- I May Destroy You as Arabella Essiuedu
2019
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK as Self - Guest Judge
2018
- Black Earth Rising as Kate Ashby
- Been So Long as Simone
2017
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Resistance Monitor
2016
- The Aliens as Lilyhot
2015
- Chewing Gum as Tracey Gordon
- London Spy as Journalist
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Monsters: Dark Continent as Kelly
- National Theatre Live: Medea as Nurse
- National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams as Tracey Gordon
2013
- National Theatre Archive: Home as Young Mum / Portugal
2011
- Black Mirror as Airline Stewardess
- Top Boy as Kayla
- Comedy Blaps as Tracey Gordon
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self