Chadwick Boseman

The man who inspired us with his simple acts.

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Boseman at the Deauville Film Festival in 2014

Here's a time line of Chadwick Boseman's life:

  • 1976 Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born and raised in Ander son, South Carolina, to Carolyn and Leroy Boseman, both African-American.
  • 1995 Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995.In his junior year, h e wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the schoo l after a classmat e was shot and killed. Boseman attended college a t Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing.
  • 2002 Boseman acted on stage in multiple productions, winning an AUDELCO award in 2002, and he also directed and wrote plays
  • He lived in Brooklyn at the start of his career.[12] Boseman worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.[6] In 2008, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.
  • 2006 Boseman also continued to write plays, with his script for Deep Azure performed at the Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago; it was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.
  • 2014 In 2014, Boseman appeared opposite Kevin Costner in Draft Day, in which he played an NFL draft prospect.[35] Later that year, he starred as James Brown in Get on Up, doing some singing and all of his own dancing.
  • 2016-2018 In 2016, he began portraying the Marvel Comics character T'Challa / Black Panther, with Captain America: Civil War being his first film in a five-picture deal with Marvel. He headlined Black Panther in 2018,
  • In 2019, it was announced that Boseman was cast in the Netflix war drama film Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee.The film was released on June 12, 2020.Lee, in choosing Boseman for the divine-like character of "Stormin" Norman, said, "This character is heroic; he's a superhero. Who do we cast? We cast Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and we cast T'Challa."
  • 2020 Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, which eventually progressed to stage IV before 2020.[5] He had never spoken publicly about his cancer diagnosis. During treatment, involving multiple surgeries and chemotherapy, he continued to work and completed production for several films, including Marshall, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and others. Boseman died at his home as a result of complications related to colon cancer on August 28, 2020, with his wife and family by his side.