Acting credits
21
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Michaela Coel
Acting
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Movies: 10Series: 12Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 1368012
IMDb ID: nm3948190
Known for: Acting
Born: October 1, 1988
Age: 37
Place of birth: Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1996 - 2026
Years active: 31
Average TMDB rating: 6.57
Wikidata: Q18637243
Also known as
Michaela Ewuraba Collinson • Michaela Boakye-Collinson • Michaela-Moses Boakye-Collinson • Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson • Михаэла Коэл
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)Original Music Composer (1)Thanks (1)
Biography
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Michaela Coel.
Apr 10
The Christophers
as Lori
2026 Movie
Mar 20
Mother Mary
as Sam Anselm
2026 Movie
5.7
Babygirl
Thanks
2024 Movie
7.0
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Aneka
2022 Movie
5.5
Been So Long
as Simone
2018 Movie
6.8
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Resistance Monitor
2017 Movie
4.7
Monsters: Dark Continent
as Kelly
2014 Movie
7.4
National Theatre Live: Medea
as Nurse
2014 Movie
10.0
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
as Tracey Gordon
2014 Movie
National Theatre Archive: Home
as Young Mum / Portugal
2013 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Michaela Coel.
6.5
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Bev • 1 eps
2024 Series
7.2
I May Destroy You
as Arabella Essiuedu • 12 eps
2020 Series
7.1
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge • 1 eps
2019 Series
6.4
Black Earth Rising
as Kate Ashby • 8 eps
2018 Series
5.6
The Aliens
as Lilyhot • 6 eps
2016 Series
6.9
London Spy
as Journalist • 1 eps
2015 Series
7.1
Chewing Gum
as Tracey Gordon • 12 eps
2015 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2014 Series
8.3
Black Mirror
as Airline Stewardess • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.5
Top Boy
as Kayla • 2 eps
2011 Series
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 2 eps
2007 Series
6.4
The Daily Show
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series