Michaela Coel
REPRESENTED BY MICHAEL DUFF & CONOR MCCAUGHAN
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Michaela’s phenomenally successful and groundbreaking HBO/BBC dark comedy-drama, I MAY DESTROY YOU, which she created, wrote, co-directed, co-produced and starred in premiered in June 2020. The series won a host of prestigious awards including: two Emmys, five BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, amongst many others. Michaela’s new show which she has similarly created and written and will be co-directing, producing and starring in, FIRST DAY ON EARTH, is currently filming and is tentatively set to release on HBO/BBC in 2027.
2026 will see Michaela starring in A24’s David Lowery-directed MOTHER MARY alongside Anne Hathaway, and THE CHRISTOPHERS opposite Ian McKellen and directed by Steven Soderbergh, which premiered at TIFF 2025. Michaela won an Emmy for her guest appearance in MR AND MRS SMITH in 2024, and she also starred in Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022).
Previous screen projects include BLACK EARTH RISING, BLACK MIRROR, BEEN SO LONG and Michaela’s own debut series CHEWING GUM, based on her play CHEWING GUM DREAMS.