Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina. After studying directing at Howard University, he landed his first major role as a series regular on Persons Unknown. His breakthrough performance came as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42. He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up as singer James Brown and Marshall as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He played the lead role in the 2018 film Black Panther, which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, but kept his condition private, continuing to act until his death in 2020.
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Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina. After studying directing at Howard University, he landed his first major role as a series regular on Persons Unknown. His breakthrough performance came as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42. He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up as singer James Brown and Marshall as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. BOSEman achieved international fame for playing superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019. He died from complications related to the illness in 2020. His final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim. He was the first black actor to headline an MCU film, he was also named to the 2018 Time 100. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, but kept his condition private, continuing to act until his death in 2020, when his final film was released. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, a son and a daughter-in-law. He also leaves behind a brother and a sister. He played the lead role in the 2018 film Black Panther, which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. He will also appear in the upcoming film The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which will be released on December 18, 2018.
He previously appeared in the film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, in which he played running back Floyd Little back Floyd Davis. He appeared in a number of other films, including Get On Up and The Express 2, as well as a short film, The Express 3, which was released in 2007. He won an AUDELCO award in 2002, and he also directed and wrote plays. His play-writing included Rhyme Deferred, and Hieroglyphic Graffiti. His script for Deep Azure was commissioned by the Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago, and was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work. In 2003, he portrayed Reggie Montgomery in the daytime soap opera All My Children, but stated that he was fired after voicing concerns to producers about racist stereotypes in the script. The role was subsequently re-cast, with his future Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan assuming the role. He lived in Brooklyn at the start of his career. He worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program, housed at the Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York. In 2008, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. In 2013, he played a recurring role on the television series Lincoln in Lincoln Story, and appeared in his first feature film, The Express. He wrote his first play, Crossroads, in his junior year, and staged it at the school after a classmate was shot and killed.
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