Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
9
Gender
Female
Birthday
October 01, 1988 ( 36 years old )
Place of Birth
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Michaela Ewuraba Collinson
Michaela Boakye-Collinson
Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson
Михаэла Коэл
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
National Theatre Archive: Home
2013-08-12National Theatre Live: Medea
2014-09-04Monsters: Dark Continent
2014-10-09Been So Long
2018-10-12Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017-12-13Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022-11-09