Chadwick Aaron Boseman was an American actor and dramatist who died on November 29, 1976. He began working as a writer, director, and actor on the stage after studying directing at Howard University, winning a Drama League Directing Fellowship and an acting AUDELCO, and being nominated for a Jeff Award as a playwright for Deep Azure.
In 2010, he received his first major part as a series regular on Persons Unknown, and his breakout performance came in 2013 in the biographical film 42 as baseball player Jackie Robinson. He continues to play historical personalities in films such as Get on Up (2014), in which he played singer James Brown, and Marshall, in which he played lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (2017).
From 2016 to 2019, Boseman rose to international prominence as the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). He starred in four MCU films, including the 2018 film of the same name, for which he won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016. He kept his sickness a secret, continuing to act while also heavily supporting cancer charities until his death from the disease in 2020. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, his final picture, was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Boseman also garnered four nominations for his roles in Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the most for a single artist at a single ceremony, and won Male Actor in a Leading Role for Ma Rainey.
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