Michaela Coel
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
Credits
- 2024 · 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 - 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
- 2014 · Monsters: Dark Continent as Kelly
- 2014 · National Theatre Live: Medea as Nurse
- 2014 · National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams as Tracey Gordon
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: Home as Young Mum / Portugal
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Airline Stewardess
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Shania
- 2011 · Top Boy as Kayla
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- Future · Mother Mary as Sam
- Future · First Day on Earth as Henri