Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as
Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom
Chewing Gum (2015â2017), 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.