After his debut as King T’challa on Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman became a global superhero. He was named one of the 100 influential people in 2018 by Time 100 and won the 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.
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born in Anderson, South Carolina. In between playing basketball, practicing martial arts, and writing plays, he always dreamt of being an architect. After graduating high school, he was recruited to play basketball in college, but decided to pursue a degree in Directing from Howard University. He also studied Shakespeare at the University of Oxford, later joining the Shakespeare Company of New York, where he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Malcolm in Macbeth.
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He worked extensively in the film and arts industry has been a director, actor, playwright, and film instructor. In the early 2000s, he directed George C. Wolfe’s The Coloured Museum and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. He also acted on television shows like All My Children, Lincoln Heights, Law and Order, and CSI: NY. His popular screenplay, Deep Azure, a play that explores issues of black-on-black violence and police brutality, was nominated for the 2006 Jeff Award for Best New Work. His first feature in a film was in 2008 on The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. He appeared on our screens again in 2010 on the series Persons Unknown. Since then, he has worked on more than 12 film projects.
When casting Black Panther, Marvel and Marvel fans agreed that he was a definite match. He even created a Wakadan accent of his own that he continued to use offscreen. His final film, Ma Rainey’s Blackbottom co-starring Viola Davis, and co-produced by Denzel Washington, skillfully sheds light on social issues through rhythm and blues. After this performance, he was posthumously nominated for Best Actor in the Golden Globe Awards, the Academy Awards, the British Film Academy Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Chadwick will be remembered for his valuable contribution to the film industry. In the hearts of many, he will always be King T’challa of Wakanda!