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Michaela Coel
Actor, Producer, Writer, Director, ComposerBorn October 1, 1988 (37 years)
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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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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Michaela Coel Filmography
| 2026 | Mother Mary · as Sam Anselm |
| 2025 | The Christophers · as Lori |
| 2024 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) (TV Series) · as Bev |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · as Aneka |
| 2020 | I May Destroy You (TV Series) · as Arabella Essiuedu |
| 2018 | Been So Long · as Simone |
| 2018 | Black Earth Rising (TV Series) · as Kate Ashby |
| 2017 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi · as Resistance Monitor |
| 2016 | The Aliens (TV Series) · as Lilyhot |
| 2015 | London Spy (TV Series) · as Journalist |
| 2015 | Chewing Gum (TV Series) · 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 |
| 2011 | Black Mirror (TV Series) · as Airline Stewardess |
| 2011 | Comedy Blaps (TV Series) · as Tracey Gordon |
| 2011 | Top Boy (TV Series) · as Kayla |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK (TV Series) · as Maid |
| 2021 | The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner |
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| 2021 | 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2019 | RuPaul's Drag Race UK (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Judge |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2013 | Portrait Artist of the Year (TV Series) · as Self - Sitter |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Alan Carr: Chatty Man (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2020 | I May Destroy You (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Chewing Gum (TV Series) |
| 2020 | I May Destroy You (TV Series) |
| 2015 | Chewing Gum (TV Series) |
| 2020 | I May Destroy You (TV Series) |
| 2015 | Chewing Gum (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |