Chadwick Boseman
American actor (1976-2020) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 43
He carried a secret through his last four years - colon cancer, never disclosed - while becoming the first Black lead of a Marvel film and playing a king who reshaped what a superhero could mean. The work didn't stop; he finished scenes for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom weeks before he died at 43.
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Between the World and MeFilm, 20202019
21 BridgesFilm, Producer2018Honorary Doctor of the Howard UniversityAwardTime 100Award
Avengers: Infinity WarFilm, 2018T'Challa / Black Panther2017
SteveSeries
MarshallFilm, 2017Thurgood Marshall2016
ChelseaSeries2014
Off Camera with Sam JonesSeries
9 KissesFilm, 2014Musician2013
42Film, Jackie Robinson2012
The Kill HoleFilm, Lt. Samuel Drake2009
CastleSeries, Chuck Russell2008
FringeSeries, Cameron JamesBlood Over a Broken PawnFilm, 2008Director, Writer2007The AppointmentFilm, The Mover2006LadyLikeFilm, Male Lead2004DateFilm, New Yorker2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1996
The Daily ShowSeries1990
Law & OrderSeries, Foster Keyes1976Born29 November 1976People around Chadwick
Kevin Feige Produced Black Panther (2018)
Anthony Russo Directed Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Joe Russo Directed Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Scarlett Johansson Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Tom Holland Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Robert Downey Jr. Also in The Infinity Saga
Chris Evans Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Elizabeth Olsen Also in The Infinity Saga
Paul Rudd Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Martin Freeman Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Paul Bettany Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Danai Gurira Also in Black Panther and Lie to Me
Sebastian Stan Also in Black Panther (2018)
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Beck Bennett Also in Restaurant Complaint and Wakanda Forever
Chris Redd Also in Black Jeopardy with Chadwick Boseman
Gigi Pritzker Produced 21 Bridges (2020)
Jeremy Renner Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Denzel Washington Produced Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Stan Lee Also in Black Panther (2018)
Forest Whitaker Also in Black Panther (2018)
Lupita Nyong'o Also in Black Panther (2018)
William Hurt Also in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
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Avengers: Endgame 2019
Avengers: Infinity War 2018
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King 2020
Captain America: Civil War 2016
Black Panther 2018
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Filmography 28
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Television 24
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Boseman grew up in South Carolina, studied directing at Howard, and started in theatre, winning a Drama League fellowship and writing the 2005 play Deep Azure. He moved to screen work with the NBC series Persons Unknown in 2010, then broke through playing Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), followed by James Brown in Get on Up (2014) and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017). In 2016 he joined the MCU as T'Challa, appearing in four films including Black Panther (2018), which made him the first Black actor to headline a Marvel feature and landed him on the Time 100 list. That same year, privately, doctors diagnosed colon cancer. He told no one outside his closest circle and kept working - through the sequels, through the voice role in What If...? that won him a posthumous Emmy, through his final performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which earned him a Golden Globe, a SAG award, and an Oscar nomination after his death on August 28, 2020.
