Chadwick Boseman

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Chadwick Boseman at San Diego Comic-Con International (2016)

Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1976 in Anderson , South Carolina , † August 28, 2020 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film actor .

Boseman was best known for the role of the superhero Black Panther in a number of Marvel Studios films , especially as the main character in the film Black Panther . Boseman et al. Had other leading roles. a. in the film biographies 42 - The True Story of a Sports Legend (as Jackie Robinson ), Get on Up (as James Brown ) and Marshall (as Thurgood Marshall ) as well as in the action thriller 21 Bridges and the war drama Da 5 Bloods .

life and career

Chadwick Boseman Deauville 2014

Chadwick Boseman grew up in the US state of South Carolina. He graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. He also attended the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford . Since Boseman was interested in the ethnicity of his African ancestors, he had a DNA analysis carried out, which showed a match with the Limba from Sierra Leone .

Boseman made his first television appearance in 2003 in the television series Third Watch . In the following years he appeared in series such as Law & Order , Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme , Cold Case - No victim is ever forgotten and Lie to Me . Between 2008 and 2009 he appeared in nine episodes of the Lincoln Heights series. 2010 followed a lead role in the short-lived series Persons Unknown . In 2011, Boseman made guest appearances in The Glades , Castle , Justified and Fringe - Borderline Cases of the FBI .

In 2013, he took on the lead role of baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical sports film 42 - The True Story of a Sports Legend . Other film biographies with Boseman as the leading actor are Get on Up about the soul musician James Brown and Marshall about the federal judge Thurgood Marshall .

In 2016 he took on the role of the superhero Black Panther in the film The First Avenger: Civil War in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Two years later, his solo film was released. He was also seen in this role in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame . Boseman was also cast as the main actor in the 2019 action thriller 21 Bridges . In Spike Lee's Vietnam War drama Da 5 Bloods , he plays group leader Norman.

He got engaged in October 2019 to singer Taylor Simone Ledward, whom he also married, as his family announced only after his death.

In August 2020, at the age of 43, he succumbed to the effects of colorectal cancer , which had already been diagnosed in 2016 ( stage III ) but had not been made public by Boseman. Boseman's last film role was that of trumpeter Levee in the music film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom about the blues musician Ma Rainey .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

NAACP Image Award

Web links

Commons : Chadwick Boseman  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chadwick Boseman Biography (1976-2020). In: biography.com. August 28, 2020, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Soraya Nadia McDonald: Everything you need to know about Chadwick Boseman - Marvel's new superhero, Black Panther. In: Washington Post , October 29, 2014.
  3. ^ Daniel Villareal: Who Is Chadwick Boseman's Wife, Taylor Simone Ledward? In: Newsweek , August 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ Ryan Pearson: 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43. In: Boston.com. August 28, 2020, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ruth Kinane: NAACP Image Awards nominations announced. In: ew.com . December 13, 2016, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Boseman, Chadwick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boseman, Chad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Anderson , South Carolina, United States
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2020
Place of death los Angeles