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Michaela Coel Age: 36

Actor | Producer

    Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born October 1, 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. She is best known for creating a

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    I May Destroy You

    Arabella Essiuedu ( Actor )

    Writer

    ... 2020

    Chewing Gum

    Tracey Gordon ( Actor )

    Original Music Composer

    ... 2015 - 2017

Fullname:

Michaela Coel

Date of Birth:

Oct 01, 1988

Country of birth:

England

Biography of

Michaela Coel

    Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born October 1, 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. 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).

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Michaela Coel

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I May Destroy You

Arabella Essiuedu ( Actor )

Writer

... 2020

Chewing Gum

Tracey Gordon ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 2015 - 2017