Michaela Ewuraba Boakya- Collinson professionally known as Michaela Coel is best known for creating and staring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gun (2015-17) for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance.
(See list of other awards and nominations))
She has written and performed professionally since 2006.
Aged 22 she enrolled in the Guildford School of Music and Drama. She was the first black woman admitted there for years.
She has also written several books (See book sheet)
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In 2018 she gave the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
She showed her integrity by turning down $1 million offered by Netfix so she could retain full rights and creative control of I May Destroy You Again, which was aired on the BBC instead.
The self-aware ‘misfit’ is now a show business insider, contributing to positive change in the industry while creating some of the in original programming in years.
Sources
Wikipedia
RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi
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