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Rising star from council estate who had the guts to say no to $1m deal from Netflix - Mirror Online

Rising star from council estate who had the guts to say no to $1m deal from Netflix - Mirror Online

Rising star from council estate who had the guts to say no to $1m deal from Netflix - Mirror Online
Jul 11, 2020 54 secs

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela Coel has risen from life on a London council estate to explode on to our screens as an actress and scriptwriter.

Her drama I May Destroy You has been gripping BBC viewers.

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.

It wasn’t until secondary school that she met other black kids her age?

So talented Michaela landed a place at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she was the first black woman enrolled in five years.

But it wasn’t all plain sailing at the school, where she says she encountered racism.

The Guildhall School says it “condemns racism and other forms of prejudice”.

Her mum is still on the same estate, and Michaela now lives nearby in a three-bedroom flat she has just bought for herself.

And in Chewing Gum, Tracey lives on a Cockney council estate.

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