Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michaela Coel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies & TV Shows
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) — Resistance Monitor
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) — Aneka
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Black Mirror (2011) — Airline Stewardess
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The Daily Show (1996) — Self
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) — Bev
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Monsters: Dark Continent (2014) — Kelly
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) — Self - Guest
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The Graham Norton Show (2007) — Self
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I May Destroy You (2020) — Arabella Essiuedu
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Top Boy (2011) — Kayla
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London Spy (2015) — Journalist
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Mother Mary (2026) — Sam Anselm
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Chewing Gum (2015) — Tracey Gordon
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Black Earth Rising (2018) — Kate Ashby
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Been So Long (2018) — Simone
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019) — Self - Guest Judge
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The Christophers (2026) — Lori Butler
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The Aliens (2016) — Lilyhot
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National Theatre Live: Medea (2014) — Nurse
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National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams (2014) — Tracey Gordon
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National Theatre Live: Home (2013) — Young Mum / Portugal
- First Day on Earth — Henri
- Comedy Blaps (2011) — Tracey Gordon
