Michaela Coel
TV Actress
Poet, singer-songwriter, and actress who wrote the play Chewing Gum Dreams, which was soon-after awarded the Alfred Fagon Award. It later became a television series, Chewing Gum, in which she starred in and won the Best Female Comedy Performance in the British Academy Television Awards.
She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England.
In 2016 she appeared in several episodes of the E4 series The Aliens and the same year appeared in Netflix's series Black Mirror. In 2021, she became the first Black woman to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for her work on I May Destroy You.
She and her older sister were raised by her mother.
She appeared alongside Bryce Dallas Howard in the series Black Mirror.