Michaela Coel

Michaela Coel

Acting

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
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
10.0

(2014) National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

as Tracey Gordon

National Theatre Archive: Home
0.0

(2013) National Theatre Archive: Home

as Young Mum / Portugal

Mother Mary
0.0

Mother Mary

as Sam

National Theatre Live: Medea
7.6

(2014) National Theatre Live: Medea

as Nurse

Monsters: Dark Continent
4.8

(2014) Monsters: Dark Continent

as Kelly

Been So Long
5.6

(2018) Been So Long

as Simone

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6.8

(2017) Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Resistance Monitor

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
7.1

(2022) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

as Aneka

0.0

The Christophers

as ---

RuPaul's Drag Race UK
7.2

(2019) RuPaul's Drag Race UK

as Self - Guest Judge

The Daily Show
6.4

(1996) The Daily Show

as Self

London Spy
7.0

(2015) London Spy

as Journalist

Chewing Gum
7.2

(2015) Chewing Gum

as Tracey Gordon

Top Boy
7.4

(2011) Top Boy

as Kayla

The Aliens
5.6

(2016) The Aliens

as Lilyhot

Black Mirror
8.3

(2011) Black Mirror

as Airline Stewardess

Black Mirror
8.3

(2011) Black Mirror

as Shania

Black Earth Rising
6.8

(2018) Black Earth Rising

as Kate Ashby

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6.5

(2024) Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Bev

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8

(2014) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

I May Destroy You
7.4

(2020) I May Destroy You

as Arabella Essiuedu

The Graham Norton Show
7.2

(2007) The Graham Norton Show

as Self

0.0

First Day on Earth

as Henri