Michaela Coel

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.

Known For

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Resistance Monitor

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

as Aneka

Black Mirror

as Airline Stewardess

Black Mirror

as Shania

The Daily Show

as Self

Monsters: Dark Continent

as Kelly

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Bev

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

I May Destroy You

as Arabella Essiuedu