Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson FRSL (born October 1, 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

• 2026Mother Mary — Sam Anselm
• 2026Proper Ladies — Executive Producer
• 2026The Christophers — Lori Butler
• 2024Babygirl — Thanks
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Bev
• 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Aneka
• I May Destroy You — Arabella Essiuedu, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
• 2018Been So Long — Simone
• Black Earth Rising — Kate Ashby
• 2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Resistance Monitor
• The Aliens — Lilyhot
• Chewing Gum — Tracey Gordon, Original Music Composer, Creator
• London Spy — Journalist
• 2014Monsters: Dark Continent — Kelly
• 2014National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams — Tracey Gordon, Writer
• 2014National Theatre Live: Medea — Nurse
• 2013National Theatre Live: Home — Young Mum / Portugal
• Black Mirror — Airline Stewardess, Shania
• Comedy Blaps — Tracey Gordon
• Top Boy — Kayla
• Bloodsport — Director, Screenplay
• First Day on Earth — Henri, Executive Producer, Creator

Appearances as themselves (4)

• RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Guest Judge
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Daily Show — Self