Michaela Coel
Age: N/A | From: Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
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Aliases: Michaela Ewuraba Collinson , Michaela Boakye-Collinson , Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson , Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson , Михаэла Коэл
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 9
TV Involvements: 16
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Black Mirror
(2011) Shania
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
(2022) Aneka
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
(2017) Resistance Monitor
Black Earth Rising
(2018) Kate Ashby
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
(2019) Self - Guest Judge
Top Boy
(2011) Kayla
London Spy
(2015) Journalist
Monsters: Dark Continent
(2014) KellyActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bev | |
| 2022 | Aneka | |
| 2020 | Arabella Essiuedu | |
| 2019 | Self - Guest Judge | |
| 2018 | Simone | |
| Kate Ashby | ||
| 2017 | Resistance Monitor | |
| 2016 | Lilyhot | |
| 2015 | Journalist | |
| Tracey Gordon | ||
| 2014 | Kelly | |
| Nurse | ||
| Tracey Gordon | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2013 | Young Mum / Portugal | |
| 2011 | Airline Stewardess | |
| Shania | ||
| Kayla | ||
| 2007 | Self | |
| 1996 | Self | |
| Henri | ||
| Sam | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
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| 2024 | Thanks | |
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Production
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| 2020 | Executive Producer | |
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Directing
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| 2020 | Director | |
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Writing
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| 2020 | Writer | |
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Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 2020 | Creator | |
| 2015 | Creator | |
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Sound
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| 2015 | Original Music Composer | |
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