Michaela Coel

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.

Works

Black Mirror

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Release Date2011-12-04

Charactersd Airline Stewardess

Episode Count1

Vote Count5571

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.

Release Date2024-02-01

Charactersd Bev

Episode Count1

Vote Count319

Chewing Gum

The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!

Release Date2015-10-06

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Charactersd Tracey Gordon

Episode Count12

Vote Count91

I May Destroy You

Set in London, where gratification is only an app away, the story centers on Arabella, a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when her drink is spiked, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.

Release Date2020-06-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Arabella Essiuedu

Episode Count12

Vote Count183

London Spy

A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.

Release Date2015-11-09

Charactersd Journalist

Episode Count1

Vote Count129

Top Boy

A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.

Release Date2011-10-31

Charactersd Kayla

Episode Count2

Vote Count122

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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 death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

Release Date2022-11-09

Charactersd Aneka

Vote Count6901

Black Earth Rising

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

Release Date2018-09-10

Charactersd Kate Ashby

Episode Count8

Vote Count66

The Aliens

Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.

Release Date2016-03-08

Charactersd Lilyhot

Episode Count6

Vote Count30

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.

Release Date2017-12-13

Charactersd Resistance Monitor

Vote Count15681

First Day on Earth

British novelist Henri is stuck. Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. So when she's offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa - her parents' homeland, where her estranged father lives - she can't resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage. But when she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity - one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Henri

Monsters: Dark Continent

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, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Release Date2014-10-09

Charactersd Kelly

Vote Count368

Mother Mary

An epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer.

Charactersd Sam

Been So Long

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.

Release Date2018-10-12

Charactersd Simone

Vote Count57

National Theatre Archive: Home

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 just wants to feel safe. Homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn’t work – where do you go? An inner-city high-rise hostel, TargetEast, offers a roof. Nadia Fall’s verbatim play features performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan.

Release Date2013-08-12

Charactersd Young Mum / Portugal

National Theatre Live: Medea

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 a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

Release Date2014-09-04

Charactersd Nurse

Vote Count8

National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

Meet Tracey Gordon. Friendship, sex, UK garage, school, teachers, periods, emergency contraception, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship. The more she learns about the world the less she understands.

Release Date2014-03-19

Charactersd Tracey Gordon

Vote Count2

The Daily Show

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Release Date1996-07-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count583

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

Release Date2014-02-17

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count343

The Graham Norton Show

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

Release Date2007-02-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count268

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

RuPaul has made the trip across the pond in search of a queen with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in all the land.

Release Date2019-10-03

Charactersd Self - Guest Judge

Episode Count1

Vote Count55

Babygirl

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Release Date2024-12-25

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count799

The Christophers

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.