Michaela Coel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michaela Coel
Occupation	TV Actress
Date Of Birth	Oct 1, 1987(1987-10-01)
Age	37
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Michaela Coel Biography

Michaela Coel is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on October 1, 1987 in London, England, United Kingdom. She was a poet, singer-songwriter, and actress who also wrote Chewing Gum Dreams. Soon afterward, the Alfred Fagon award was awarded. Chewing Gum was later made into a television series. She starred in it and won the Best Female Comedy Performance award at the British Academy Television Awards.

In the series Black Mirror, she was paired with She appeared alongside Bryce Dallas Howard in the series Black Mirror..

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (1 October 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian British actress, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, poet and playwright. In 2016, she won the BAFTA for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme and Breakthrough Talent for the television series Chewing Gum, which she created, wrote and acted as the lead role.

In 2006, Coel began performing in poetry open mics in Ealing. As she continued to do open mics, she was encouraged by the actor, playwright, and director Ché Walker, who saw her perform at Hackney Empire, to apply to Guildhall. As a poet she has performed on stages including Wembley Arena, Bush Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Rotterdam De Doelen Concert Hall. She went by the name, Michaela The Poet.

Her mother raised her and her older sister.

Michaela Coel Net Worth

Michaela Coel is one of the richest TV Actress from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michaela Coel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England.

She appeared in episodes of E4’s The Aliens series and, in 2016, she was featured in Netflix’s Black Mirror series.

Coel was born as Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson in London on 1 October

1987. Her parents were Ghanaian. She and her older sister grew up in London, primarily Hackney and Tower Hamlets, with her mother; her parents had split before her birth. She attended Catholic schools in East London, and has said that her isolation as the only black pupil in her age cohort at primary school caused her to bully other pupils. The isolation did not continue into her secondary education at a comprehensive school.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Michaela Coel Dating?

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In 2015, Coel also guest-starred in BBC One drama London Spy. In 2016, she starred in the E4 sci-fi comedy-drama The Aliens, which was shot in Bulgaria. She portrays the character, Lilyhot.

Facts & Trivia

Michaela Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michaela Coel celebrates birthday on October 1 of every year.

Chewing Gum returned for a second season in January 2017. She also appeared in the “Nosedive” and “USS Callister” episodes of Charlie Brooker’s series Black Mirror. She also had a small role in the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Why did Michaela Coel turn down Netflix?

The 12-episode series is inspired by Coel’s experience of being a survivor of sexual assault. But as Coel was pitching what would become her award-winning show back in 2017, she originally turned down a $1 million deal to make the show with Netflix , according to a July 2020 profile with Vulture.

Is I may destroy you a true story?

I May Destroy You centers on a TV writer named Arabella Essiedu (Michaela) who struggles with moving forward in her life after she is drugged and raped. In 2018, Michaela delivered a lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival and shared that she is a real-life survivor of sexual assault.

Is Michaela Coel Ghanaian?

For the new cover of Variety Magazine, Ghanaian-born British Actress Michaela Coel joined six creative leaders in comedy honored by the publication for its 2021 #PowerOfWomen issue.

Does Michaela Coel have a book?

Books

What is Michaela Coel doing now?

Michaela Coel is confirmed to be working on a new television series for BBC , the U.K. home of her acclaimed limited series “I May Destroy You.” The network’s drama chief Piers Wenger announced the project at a virtual event this week in which the BBC unveiled its slate of upcoming new shows.