Michaela Coel
Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1988
- Place of Birth
- Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
- Known For
- Женский
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.
Filmography
Black Mirror
as Airline Stewardess, as Shania
2011
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
2019
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Bev
2024
Black Earth Rising
as Kate Ashby
2018
I May Destroy You
as Arabella Essiuedu
2020
Chewing Gum
as Tracey Gordon
2015
Top Boy
as Kayla
2011
London Spy
as Journalist
2015
The Aliens
as Lilyhot
2016
First Day on Earth
as Henri