The biography of Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther star, dies at 43
CIVIL STATUS
Professions Actor, Producer, Executive Producer
Birth name Chadwick Aaron Boseman
Nationality American
Born 29 November 1976 (Anderson – South Carolina)
Death 28 August 2020 at the age of 43
Chadwick Boseman Originally from South Carolina, he was born and raised to Carolyn and Leroy Boseman, both African American. According to Boseman, DNA testing indicated that his ancestors were Krio people from Sierra Leone, Yoruba people from Nigeria and Limba people from Sierra Leone.
He studied at Howard University in Washington from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in directing, then joined the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.
It was in the mid-2000s that he managed to make a name for himself, becoming one of the rising stars of the small screen.
He first cut his teeth in detective series (CSI: Manhattan, New York District / New York Police Judiciaire, Cold Case: classified cases) then diversified (Urgences, Lie To Me, The Glades), to finally win regular roles in Return to Lincoln Heights and Persons Unknown.
On the cinema side, he directed two short films (“Blood Over a Broken Pawn” and “Heaven”), then obtained the role of Floyd Little in The Express (2008), a drama about American football player Ernie Davis.
A supporting role of sportsman who has not gone unnoticed for five years later, he is the headliner of biopic 42 (2013), donning the tracksuit of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player to have played in the Major League.
Then, it is again for a biopic that we contact him. It is no longer a question of sport but of music. Shiny hair, fiery footwork and enraged vocals, Chad Boseman dons the panoply of funk pope James Brown in Tate Taylor’s Get On Up. The actor finds Nelsan Ellis there, with whom he had filmed in The Express (2008).
Increasingly in demand, the actor’s career takes an important turn when he is chosen to slip into the shoes of a Marvel superhero in Captain America: Civil War.
This is Black Panther, who is entitled to his solo film in 2018. At the same time, Boseman carries the violent Message from the King of the Frenchman Fabrice Du Welz, where he plays a badass character looking for his sister who has disappeared in strange circumstances in Los Angeles. .
In 2019, the actor finds his superhero character and the Marvel universe with Avengers Endgame. That same year, Spike Lee rushed into the Vietnam War for Da 5 Bloods, which will remain his last screen appearance.