Chadwick Boseman was an American Actor. Chadwick was born on November 29, 1976. He’s famous for his portrayal of heroic and real life individuals. In his 20 years of career, he has received countless accolades & awards, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Awards, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Academy Award nominations.
He studied directing at Howard University, Boseman began his career in theatre, winning a Drama League Directing Fellowship and an acting AUDELCO, along with receiving a Jeff Award nomination for his 2005 participation, Deep Azure.
Boseman’s first major portrayal was a series regular on the NBC drama Persons Unknown 2010. Boseman began his breakthrough character as baseball player Jackie Robinson in 42 in year 2013. He continued to act in historical figures, starring as singer James Brown in Get On Up in 2014 and as Thurgood Marshall in Marshall in year 2017.
When he began playing Marvel comic portrayal he achieved international fame after portraying his amazing superhero role, Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) FROM 2016 TO 2019. He did four MCU movies which are: Eponymous in 2018, that made him won an NAACP Image Award for outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and also a Screen Actors Guild Award for his amazing performance by a cast in a motion pictures. He was the one Black Actor to headline an MCU film, he got mentioned by Time 100 in 2018.
Boseman’s last portrayal was the Disney+ anthology series What If… ? In 2021. He earned a posthumous Primetime Emmy Award for his outstanding role voice over performance..
Sorrowfully, in 2016, Boseman was diagnosed with Colon Cancer. He planned to keep his condition private. And he constantly act until his death in 2020 from the disease. Chadwick’s last film was, Spike Lee’s Drama Da 5 Bloods, and the adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, after the release posthumously the exact year to critical acclaim earning him the Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding Actor in a leading character and also the Golden Globe Award for best actor- Motion Pictures Drama as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Boseman grew up in Anderson, South Carolina. He was the son of Carolyn and Leroy Boseman, both African American. Boseman’s mom was a nurse, and his father worked at a textile factory and managed an upholstery business. When he was young he learned Martial arts, and he continued his training even after as an adult.
When Boseman was little he wants to become an Architect Engineer. Boseman completed his graduation from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995, where he played on the basketball team. When he was in junior year, he wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the school after a classmate shot and killed.
His teacher supported him by raising funds, notably from his friends and prominent Actor Denzel Washington, so that Boseman could attend, Oxford Summer program of the British American Drama Academy at Balliol College Oxford, In England, to which they had been accepted. His goal was to write and direct, and initially began studying acting skills to learn how to relate to Actors.
Boseman used to lived in Brooklyn at the beginning of his career. In 2000, he was named a Drama League Directing Fellow. Boseman directed productions such as, George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum and a staging of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. He came to prominence as a, playwright and stage actor in year 2002, he had played in numerous productions and winning an AUDELCO Awards in 2002 for his appearance in Ron Milner’s Urban Transition.
As a part of the National Shakespeare Company of New York, he portrayed Rhyme Deferred, in which he also portrayed, and Hieroglyphic Graffiti.
In 2003, he was cast in his debut tv portrayal, an episode of Third Watch, and began playing, Reggie Montgomery in the daytime soap opera All My Children. Due to voicing concerns to producers about racist stereotypes in the script he was fired from All My Children, the role was subsequently re-cast with Boseman’s future Black Panther co-star Michael B.
Jordan taking the part. He desired to work around the Stereotypes of the portrayals, after some time he got a second script and learned that his role’s parents were a drug addict and an absent father , Boseman confronted the creators.
In 2015, Boseman began dating singer Taylor Simone Ledward. The duo got engaged by October 2019, and they also married secretly. As opened by his family after his death. He was raised in a Christian household and was Baptized. Once he said to a interviewer that he prayed to be the Black Panther before he was cast as the role in the MCU.
He was so kind hearted, he secretly supported numerous charities. He also worked with cancer charities including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and continuing to help those who were badly battling the disease up until his own death from it, in a message to a producer a day before of his passing, Boseman inquired about sending presents to childhood cancer patients.
He donated $10, 000 to the childrens of Harlem and provided them the free tickets to watch their favourite film Black Panther, he did this to help and promote his film.
Boseman also encourage others to donate, in response Disney donated $1 Million to the kids to advance its STEM programs. Boseman advocated for kid’s charities, with the Jackie Robinson Foundation noting after his death that he helped with their youth outreach. Disney decided to donate $400 million to charities causes.
In April 2020, Boseman donated $4.2 million in personal protective equipment to hospitals battling with the COVID-19 PANDEMIC in Black Communities. He encouraged people to donate PPE.
On August 28, 2020, Boseman passed away at his LA, Home, due to complications related to, “Colon Cancer”.
