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8 June 2021
Ben Dowell
When Michaela Coel stood up to receive her two television Bafta awards on Sunday night for
best actress and best mini-series for her searing drama series I May Destroy You, it wasn’t the
first time the 33-year-old had held one of those famous masks in her hand.
Long before Fleabag took the TV world by storm with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s wry looks to
camera and the painfully raw, funny and sexually explicit tale of a young woman navigating the
choppy waters of urban adulthood, love and sex, Coel had been there, done it, and got her first
