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Michaela Coel

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36 Years Old

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.

Born

Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK on 1st October 1988

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The Daily Show
Self
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
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The Graham Norton Show
Self
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Black Mirror
Shania
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Black Mirror
Airline Stewardess
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Guest Judge
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Bev
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Chewing Gum
Tracey Gordon
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I May Destroy You
Arabella Essiuedu
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London Spy
Journalist
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Top Boy
Kayla
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Aneka
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Black Earth Rising
Kate Ashby
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Resistance Monitor
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The Aliens
Lilyhot
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First Day on Earth
Henri
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Monsters: Dark Continent
Kelly
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Mother Mary
Sam
Been So Long Image
Been So Long
Simone
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National Theatre Live: Medea
Nurse
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National Theatre Archive: Home
Young Mum / Portugal
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The Christophers
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National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
Tracey Gordon