Michaela Coel
Acting
Born: Oct 01, 1988
From: Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Credits: 24 titles
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
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mother Mary | Sam Anselm | 2026 | 5.3 |
| The Christophers | Lori Butler | 2026 | 6.25 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV | Bev | 2024 | 6.533 |
| Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Aneka | 2022 | 7.0 |
| I May Destroy You TV | Arabella Essiuedu | 2020 | 7.225 |
| RuPaul's Drag Race UK TV | Self - Guest Judge | 2019 | 7.1 |
| Been So Long | Simone | 2018 | 5.5 |
| Black Earth Rising TV | Kate Ashby | 2018 | 6.4 |
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Resistance Monitor | 2017 | 6.755 |
| The Aliens TV | Lilyhot | 2016 | 5.609 |
| London Spy TV | Journalist | 2015 | 6.92 |
| Chewing Gum TV | Tracey Gordon | 2015 | 7.1 |
| National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams | Tracey Gordon | 2014 | 10.0 |
| National Theatre Live: Medea | Nurse | 2014 | 7.4 |
| Monsters: Dark Continent | Kelly | 2014 | 4.736 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV | Self - Guest | 2014 | 5.873 |
| National Theatre Live: Home | Young Mum / Portugal | 2013 | — |
| Top Boy TV | Kayla | 2011 | 7.4 |
| Black Mirror TV | Airline Stewardess | 2011 | 8.282 |
| Black Mirror TV | Shania | 2011 | 8.282 |
| Comedy Blaps TV | Tracey Gordon | 2011 | — |
| The Graham Norton Show TV | Self | 2007 | 7.2 |
| The Daily Show TV | Self | 1996 | 6.427 |
| First Day on Earth TV | Henri | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 24 |
| Born | 1988 |
| From | Tower Hamlets, London, … |