Michaela Coel Net Worth 2024, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

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Michaela Coel Biography

Michaela Coel is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on October 1, 1987 in London, England, United Kingdom. She was a poet, singer-songwriter, and actress who also wrote Chewing Gum Dreams. Soon afterward, the Alfred Fagon award was awarded. Chewing Gum was later made into a television series. She starred in it and won the Best Female Comedy Performance award at the British Academy Television Awards.

In the series Black Mirror, she was paired with She appeared alongside Bryce Dallas Howard in the series Black Mirror..

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (1 October 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian British actress, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, poet and playwright. In 2016, she won the BAFTA for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme and Breakthrough Talent for the television series Chewing Gum, which she created, wrote and acted as the lead role.

In 2006, Coel began performing in poetry open mics in Ealing. As she continued to do open mics, she was encouraged by the actor, playwright, and director Ché Walker, who saw her perform at Hackney Empire, to apply to Guildhall. As a poet she has performed on stages including Wembley Arena, Bush Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Rotterdam De Doelen Concert Hall. She went by the name, Michaela The Poet.

Her mother raised her and her older sister.

NameMichaela Coel
First NameMichaela
Last NameCoel
OccupationTV Actress
BirthdayOctober 1
Birth Year1987
Place of BirthLondon
Home TownEngland
Birth CountryUnited Kingdom
Birth SignLibra
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Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2009, Coel joined the Talawa Theatre Company summer school program called TYPT. During her time at Talawa she was in the TYPT 2009 production of Krunch, directed by Amani Naphtali. In 2009, Coel released an album entitled Fixing Barbie, which featured her work as a poet and musician. In 2011, Coel released the record “We’re the Losers”.

Michaela Coel Net Worth

Michaela Coel is one of the richest TV Actress from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michaela Coel's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England.

She appeared in episodes of E4’s The Aliens series and, in 2016, she was featured in Netflix’s Black Mirror series.

Coel was born as Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson in London on 1 October 1987. Her parents were Ghanaian. She and her older sister grew up in London, primarily Hackney and Tower Hamlets, with her mother; her parents had split before her birth. She attended Catholic schools in East London, and has said that her isolation as the only black pupil in her age cohort at primary school caused her to bully other pupils. The isolation did not continue into her secondary education at a comprehensive school.

Net Worth$5 Million
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Source of IncomeTV Actress
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HouseLiving in own house.

In 2012, Coel’s play, Chewing Gum Dreams, was her senior / graduation project at Guildhall. It was first produced at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick in 2012. The play featured Coel in a one-woman show telling the dramatic story of a 14-year-old girl named Tracey. The play then went on to be produced by the Bush Theatre (2012), Royal Theatre Holland (2012), Royal Exchange Theatre (2013), and the National Theatre (2014). It received positive reviews.

In August 2014, Channel 4 announced that Coel was to star in and write a new sitcom called Chewing Gum, inspired by her play Chewing Gum Dreams. “C4 Comedy Blaps” were released as teasers in September 2014, and the series began on E4 in October 2015. Her performance earned her the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2016. She also won a BAFTA for Breakthrough Talent for writing the show. Chewing Gum received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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From 2007 to 2009, Coel attended Birmingham University to study English Literature and Theology. She took a Ché Walker masterclass at RADA after meeting Walker at open mics. In 2009, she transferred to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was the first black woman enrolled in five years. She won the Laurence Olivier Bursary award, which helped her fund her schooling. During her time at Guildhall, she attended the Mark Proulx workshop at Prima del Teatro and took the Kat Francois Poetry Course at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2012.

For the 2016 BAFTA Awards, Coel wore a dress made out of Kente cloth which was made by her mother. She has said that, like her Chewing Gum character Tracey, she became very religious in the Pentecostal faith, and embraced celibacy. Although she still considers herself a Christian, Coel stopped practising Pentecostalism after attending Guildhall. She now publicly identifies as aromantic.

Who is Michaela Coel Dating?

According to our records, Michaela Coel is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Michaela Coel’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2015, Coel also guest-starred in BBC One drama London Spy. In 2016, she starred in the E4 sci-fi comedy-drama The Aliens, which was shot in Bulgaria. She portrays the character, Lilyhot.

Facts & Trivia

Michaela Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michaela Coel celebrates birthday on October 1 of every year.

Chewing Gum returned for a second season in January 2017. She also appeared in the “Nosedive” and “USS Callister” episodes of Charlie Brooker’s series Black Mirror. She also had a small role in the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Why did Michaela Coel turn down Netflix?

The 12-episode series is inspired by Coel’s experience of being a survivor of sexual assault. But as Coel was pitching what would become her award-winning show back in 2017, she originally turned down a $1 million deal to make the show with Netflix, according to a July 2020 profile with Vulture.

Is I may destroy you a true story?

I May Destroy You centers on a TV writer named Arabella Essiedu (Michaela) who struggles with moving forward in her life after she is drugged and raped. In 2018, Michaela delivered a lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival and shared that she is a real-life survivor of sexual assault.

Is Michaela Coel Ghanaian?

For the new cover of Variety Magazine, Ghanaian-born British Actress Michaela Coel joined six creative leaders in comedy honored by the publication for its 2021 #PowerOfWomen issue.

Does Michaela Coel have a book?

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What is Michaela Coel doing now?

Michaela Coel is confirmed to be working on a new television series for BBC, the U.K. home of her acclaimed limited series “I May Destroy You.” The network’s drama chief Piers Wenger announced the project at a virtual event this week in which the BBC unveiled its slate of upcoming new shows.

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