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 wom...
Also Known As
Michaela Ewuraba Collinson, Michaela Boakye-Collinson, Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson, Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, Михаэла Коэл
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Michaela Coel's Movies
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
13 Dec 2017
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
09 Nov 2022
Monsters: Dark Continent
09 Oct 2014
Been So Long
12 Oct 2018
National Theatre Live: Medea
04 Sept 2014
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
19 Mar 2014
National Theatre Archive: Home
12 Aug 2013
Mother Mary
17 Apr 2026
The Christophers
10 Apr 2026
Michaela Coel's TV Shows
Black Mirror
04 Dec 2011
Black Mirror
04 Dec 2011
The Daily Show
22 Jul 1996
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
01 Feb 2024
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
17 Feb 2014
The Graham Norton Show
22 Feb 2007
I May Destroy You
07 Jun 2020
Top Boy
31 Oct 2011
London Spy
09 Nov 2015
Chewing Gum
06 Oct 2015
Black Earth Rising
10 Sept 2018
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
03 Oct 2019
The Aliens
08 Mar 2016
First Day on Earth
Comedy Blaps
11 Nov 2011