She's being hailed as one of the boldest and most exciting emerging talents in the TV and film world. Feisty Michaela Coel has risen from life on a London council estate to explode on to our screens as an actress and scriptwriter.
Her powerful, critically acclaimed BBC drama I May Destroy You – about a novelist piecing her life together after being raped – has been gripping BBC viewers.
Michaela, 32, is being tipped for Hollywood fame and has even been compared to multi-talented Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller Bridge, now a James Bond scriptwriter.
And last week it emerged she had turned down a $1million offer to make I May Destroy You – based on her own experiences of sexual assault – for Netflix because the streaming giant wanted full
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