Michaela Coel
An image from National Theatre Live: Medea, one of the productions that also features Michaela Coel.
Michaela Coel

Michaela Coel

October 1, 1988 — Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

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).

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Monsters: Dark Continent

Monsters: Dark Continent

2014

I May Destroy You

I May Destroy You

2020

Chewing Gum

Chewing Gum

2015

Been So Long

Been So Long

2018

National Theatre Live: Medea

National Theatre Live: Medea

2014

National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

2014