Michaela Coel

Michaela Ewuraba BoakyeCollinson born October 1 1987 known professionally as Michaela Coel is a GhanaianBritish actress filmmaker singer and composer She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum 20152017 for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the BBC OneHBO comedydrama 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 gueststarring in the series Black Mirror 20162017 starring as Kate Ashby in the series Black Earth Rising 2018 and as Simone in the film Been So Long 2018