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Chadwick Aaron Boseman (/ ˈ b oʊ z m ə n /; November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor. During his two-decade career, Boseman received several accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, along with an Academy Award nomination.
IMDb profile of Chadwick Boseman, the American actor who played Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall. Learn about his life, career, legacy, and death from colon cancer in 2020.
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- November 29, 1976
- 1 min
- August 28, 2020
- Who Was Chadwick Boseman?
- Early Life and Career
- Starring Roles on TV
- Movies
- Playing Jackie Robinson in '42'
- Taking on James Brown in 'Get on Up'
- 'Black Panther'
- 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'
- Death
- Personal Life
Chadwick Boseman had early success as a stage actor, writer and director, before landing gigs on TV shows like Lincoln Heights. Boseman broke through with his big screen portrayals of two African American icons: baseball player Jackie Robinson in 42, and soul singer James Brown in Get on Up. Boseman later took on the role of Black Panther for a ser...
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born in 1976 in South Carolina and went on to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. (In 2018, he gave the commencement speech at Howard and received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.) He then attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, En...
Boseman started to make a name for himself on TV in the mid-2000s, with guest spots on crime dramas like Third Watch and CSI:NY, and on the soap opera All My Children. Additionally, he was one of the performers for the award-winning audio version of the 2005 novel Upstate, by Kalisha Buckhanon. In 2008 Boseman landed a recurring role as Nathaniel R...
The year 2008 also saw Boseman appearing in Gary Fleder's The Express, a sports biopic about renowned running back Ernie Davis, who played for Syracuse University during the civil rights era. The film co-starred Rob Brown and Dennis Quaid, with Boseman featured as fellow running back Floyd Little. Boseman would land his next prominent role as Graha...
Around the same time, Boseman won the lead role in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, which tells the story of the legendary baseball player who broke racial barriers by becoming the first African American to play in the majors in the 20th century. The film, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, and co-starring Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers exec...
Meanwhile, Boseman was working on another high-profile project: He signed on to portray music legend James Brown in Get on Up, a story that producer Brian Grazer had spent years trying to bring to the big screen. He was finally able to get the movie going with help from Mick Jagger. Directed by Tate Taylor, Get on Up follows Brown through his perso...
Also in 2016, Boseman joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his appearance in the superhero ensemble blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He played T'Challa, king of the African country of Wakanda, who becomes the powerful Black Panther. Following a return to dramatic fare with Thurgood (2017), about a case early in the legal career of Justi...
In what would be his final role, Boseman played trumpeter Levee Green in the on-screen adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The role won Boseman posthumous Golden Globe, Critics Choice and SAG awards and an Oscar nomination.
Boseman passed away on August 28, 2020, from colon cancer. "It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman," a statement posted on his social media accounts read. "Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancerin 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV. A true fighter, Chadwick pe...
Boseman secretly married his longtime girlfriend Taylor Simone Ledward before his death. The pair became engaged in October 2019.
Aug 28, 2020 · Chadwick Boseman, the regal actor who embodied a long-held dream of African-American moviegoers as the star of the groundbreaking superhero film “Black Panther,” died on Friday at his home in...
Aug 29, 2020 · 29 August 2020. Chadwick Boseman: Five things to know. US actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing Black Panther in the hit Marvel superhero franchise, has died of cancer aged 43. He...
Aug 29, 2020 · Chadwick Boseman — a magnetic actor who brought trailblazing Marvel superhero Black Panther to the big screen in a career also highlighted by his portrayals of real-life icons Jackie Robinson...
Learn about the life and career of Chadwick Boseman, the American actor who played Black Panther and other real-life heroes. Find out his birth and death dates, family, education, trivia, quotes, and more on IMDb.
