Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in 1976, to African-American parents, she a nurse and he a worker in the textile industry. Proud of his African origins, the future actor traced where he came from, and found that blood from the Krio, Yoruba and Limba tribes, from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, ran through his veins.

As a young man, he was attracted to representation, although his first inclination was to write and direct, which he already did in his high school years, with his work “Crossroads”, where he showed his first social concerns, since he was inspired by the death of shots from a teammate. He would obtain a degree in Fine Arts Direction from Howard University in Washington DC. Phylicia Rashad, an actress and professor at the institution, noticed him there, and thanks to his support he was able to obtain a scholarship to attend the summer program of the Anglo-American Dramatic Academy. From london. He also studied acting in New York, with the desire to better understand the craft of the actors for whom he wanted to create stories and direct them. He could not imagine that in the end his job would be precisely that, acting, although he would also write plays.

His first works on the screen were for television, a brief appearance in a chapter, also in famous series such as All my children and Law and order . Curiously, in the first he was replaced after pointing out some racial clichés in the script by Michael B. Jordan , with whom he would coincide in Black Panther . In 2008 he would decide to move to Los Angeles and play the Hollywood card hard.

It put him on the map in the 2013 movie 42 , in which he played the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson. He was a leading role, and also embodied a true sports celebrity; His acceptance marked his trajectory, since it meant renouncing the direction that he had considered very seriously. They must have seen potential in it for real characters, since his next work in 2014 was I Feel Good: The James Brown Story , about the famous soul singer. Thus began 8 years of a brief but fruitful career on the big screen, where he achieved celebrity thanks to the character Black Panther from Marvel comics. He first played him in Captain America: Civil War., in 2016, but two years later came the film in which he was the absolute protagonist, Black Panther , where his origins and his leadership in the mythical Wakanda, a super-advanced and super-secret African country, were told. The film was a complete phenomenon, and it was nominated for an Oscar for best picture, out of 7 nominations of which it won 3, but Boseman was not even nominated. The actor would reprise the character in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame .

The actor had recently played an African-American cop in dead-end Manhattan , and was in Spike Lee ‘s emotional Netflix film about African-American Vietnam veterans Da 5 Bloods: Brothers in Arms .

Boseman was a Christian, and when he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, he decided to fight the disease, while not going public. He kept working, and precisely in those years he achieved popularity as a superhero and actor with a great personality. He was very loved by his companions, and the fact that the disease was not known has given rise to a greater shock when his death has been made public. The actor had married the singer Taylor Simone Ledward in 2019, who undoubtedly knew his condition and accompanied him along with the rest of the family in his last moments.