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 wom...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Babygirl
2024
Thanks
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
as Aneka
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...
Been So Long
2018
as Simone
A single mother in London's Camden Town hears music when she meets a handsome stranger with a past. But she's not sure she's ready to open her heart.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as Resistance Monitor
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resist...
Monsters: Dark Continent
2014
as Kelly
Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, wi...
National Theatre Live: Medea
2014
as Nurse
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for...
National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams
2014
as Tracey Gordon
Meet Tracey Gordon. Friendship, sex, UK garage, school, teachers, periods, emergency contraception, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship...
National Theatre Archive: Home
2013
as Young Mum / Portugal
Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy ...
Mother Mary
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as Sam
An epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer.
The Christophers
N/A
The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.