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Michaela Coel

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Also known as Michaela Ewuraba O Collinson, Michaela Collinson, Michaela The Poet, Michaela-Moses Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson

British actress and screenwriter

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Misfits
  • Chewing Gum Dreams

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1987-10-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
104
Total plays
291

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Key facts

Born
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson , ( 1987-10-01 ) 1 October 1987 (age 38) , London , England
Alma mater
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Occupations
Actress, television director, producer, screenwriter
Years active
2013–present

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Encyclopedic overview

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson FRSL (born 1 October 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British 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.

Coel is also known for her work in other Netflix productions, including guest-starring in the series Black Mirror (2016–2017), and starring in the series Black Earth Rising (2018) and film Been So Long (2018).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michaela Coel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.