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MICHAELA COEL

Actor | Producer
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 Y...
BORN August 1, 1979
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HEIGHT 6'4" (1.93 m)
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NATIONALITY American
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YEARS ACTIVE 1999 – Present
MICHAELA COEL

🏆 AWARDS & ACCOLADES

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2022
SATURN AWARDS

Best Supporting Actor - Dune

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2019
SATURN AWARDS

Best Actor - Aquaman

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2017
MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS

Best Hero - Aquaman

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2015
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Best Supporting Actor - Game of Thrones

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2012
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Game of Thrones

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👤 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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