Michaela Coel
Acting
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).
Known For
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
Black Mirror
Black Mirror
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
London Spy
Black Earth Rising
I May Destroy You
Chewing Gum
Top Boy
Monsters: Dark Continent
Been So Long
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