Michaela Coel
Sign in to saveAlso 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1987-10-01
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 104
- Total plays
- 291
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michaela+Coel">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes
· 2015 · cited 10,552x
- Trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for treatment of HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (ToGA): a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial
· 2010 · cited 6,082x
- ACSL4 dictates ferroptosis sensitivity by shaping cellular lipid composition
· 2016 · cited 3,833x
- The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours: Myeloid and Histiocytic/Dendritic Neoplasms
· 2022 · cited 3,759x
- Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial transcriptomics
· 2016 · cited 3,655x
via Crossref · CC0
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
via Wikipedia infobox
~8 min read
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.