# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michaela-coel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:58:25.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michaela-coel"
name: "Michaela Coel"
slug: "michaela-coel"
description: "Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British actress, writer and television director. She is known for creating and starring in the E4 television 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special."
tagline: "British actress and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michaela_Coel_Peabody_Awards%2C_June_2021.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1987-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump