Michaela Coel
Birthday
1988/10/01 (36 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Also know as
Michaela Ewuraba Collinson, Michaela Boakye-Collinson, Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson, Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, Михаэла Коэл
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 wom...Read more
Acting
(2014) National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
as Tracey Gordon
(2013) National Theatre Archive: Home
as Young Mum / Portugal
Mother Mary
as Sam
(2014) National Theatre Live: Medea
as Nurse
(2014) Monsters: Dark Continent
as Kelly
(2018) Been So Long
as Simone
(2017) Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Resistance Monitor
(2022) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Aneka
The Christophers
as ---
(2019) RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
(1996) The Daily Show
as Self
(2015) London Spy
as Journalist
(2015) Chewing Gum
as Tracey Gordon
(2011) Top Boy
as Kayla
(2016) The Aliens
as Lilyhot
(2011) Black Mirror
as Airline Stewardess
(2011) Black Mirror
as Shania
(2018) Black Earth Rising
as Kate Ashby
(2024) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Bev
(2014) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
(2020) I May Destroy You
as Arabella Essiuedu
(2007) The Graham Norton Show
as Self
First Day on Earth
as Henri