Biography
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British and Ghanaian actress, writer and television director. She is known for creating and starring in the E4 television 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special.
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Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2022
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award · 2022
- OkayAfrica 100 Women · 2017
- British Academy Television Award — Best Female Comedy Performance · 2016
Filmography18 titles
Black Mirror
I May Destroy You
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Chewing Gum
London Spy
The Christophers
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Black Earth Rising
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Babygirl
The Aliens
Mother Mary
Been So Long
Monsters: Dark Continent