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Birth Name: Micheala Ewuraba O. Collinson/Boakye
Place of Birth: Tower Hamlets, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 1 October, 1987
Ethnicity: Ghanaian
Michaela Coel is a British actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and singer. She is known for creating, writing, directing episodes of, and starring on, the show I May Destroy You . Her roles also include the films Monsters: Dark Continent , Been So Long , Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , and The Christophers ; the shows Top Boy , Chewing Gum , which she also created and wrote; The Aliens , Black Mirror: USS Callister , and Black Earth Rising ; and many works on stage.
Her parents are Ghanaian. She was raised in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Her cousin is rapper, author, and broadcaster Guvna B (Isaac Charles Bortey Borquaye). Michaela was a religious Pentecostal Christian for a time.
Michaela’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Collinson.