Shocking Death of “Chadwick Boseman”

 

Shocking Death of

“Chadwick Boseman”

 

 

On November 29, 1976, Chadwick Aaron Boseman, an American actor, was born. In his two-decade career, Boseman received numerous awards and nominations, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Oscar. Chadwick Aaron Boseman was reared in Anderson, South Carolina, and is the son of Carolyn and Leroy Boseman. His mother was a nurse and his father ran an upholstery business in addition to working in the textile sector. Boseman practiced martial arts both as a child and an adult. He had always envisioned himself as an architect.

Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995 where he played basketball and earned his graduation. In his junior year, a classmate was shot and killed, inspiring him to write and perform Crossroads, his debut play. He competed in the National Speech and Debate Association speech and debate tournaments at T. L. Hanna. He came in ninth place in Original Oratory at the 1995 National Competition. He was courted to play basketball in college, but he chose to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in directing in 2000 instead. When he was a student, he worked at a nearby African-American-focused bookstore, which, according to his friend Vanessa German, was significant and inspirational to him. For his play Hieroglyphic Graffiti, he drew inspiration from this encounter.

 

He had Phylicia Rashad and Al Freeman Jr. as lecturers at Howard; the latter later became a mentor to him. Boseman and other students were accepted for the Balliol College, Oxford, England, British American Drama Academy's Oxford Summer Program. Rashad helped with fundraising, especially with the help of her friend and renowned actor Denzel Washington. Because he wanted to write and direct, Boseman initially began studying acting to learn how to engage with actors. He developed an admiration for William Shakespeare's playwriting while enrolled in the program in 1998, and he also studied the works of other dramatists, including Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. He traveled to Africa for the first time while in college, working in Ghana with his professor Mike Malone to "keep and commemorate traditions with performances on a proscenium stage." He later referred to this as "one of the most essential learning experiences of [his] life." After returning to the country, he took additional film studies courses, and the Digital Film Academy in New York City awarded him a diploma.

 

After earning a degree in directing from Howard University, Boseman started working in theater. His 2005 production Deep Azure was nominated for a Jeff Award, and he also received an acting AUDELCO from the Drama League and a directing fellowship from the organization. His series regular performance on the NBC drama Persons Unknown in 2010 led to his first important film role, and in the 2013 historical picture 42, where he played baseball legend, Jackie Robinson, he won praise from critics. In the 2014 movie Get on Up, he played James Brown, and in the 2017 movie Marshall, he played a young Thurgood Marshall. He continued to impersonate historical people.

 

From 2016 through 2019, Boseman won acclaim for his portrayal of the Marvel Comics character Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He appeared in four Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the 2018 film of the same name, for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. For becoming the first black actor to play the main character in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, he was also listed in the 2018 Time 100. In the Disney+ anthology series What If...?, Boseman played the lead. his final showing. posthumously won the Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance Primetime Emmy Award in 2021.

 

In 2016, Boseman received a colon cancer diagnosis. He concealed his illness and continued to work till his passing in 2020. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which was released posthumously that same year and received positive reviews, earned him nominations for both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. For his parts in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Da 5 Bloods, Boseman received the most nominations for a performer at a single Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, with the latter garnering him Male Actor in a Leading Role.

 

Boseman began dating Taylor Simone Ledward in 2015. The couple reportedly married in secret after becoming engaged in October 2019. In a letter announcing Boseman's passing, his family disclosed this information.

 

Boseman has raised a Christian and received baptism. His old pastor reported that he kept up his faith and was active in the church choir and youth group. He had studied Hebrew and was well-informed in both the Old and New Testaments. Boseman asserted that he prayed to be the Black Panther before being selected to play the part in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

Boseman succumbed to symptoms of colon cancer on August 28, 2020, in his Los Angeles home, surrounded by his wife and family. He was 43 years old. Ledward will represent his estate in accordance with California law because he passed away without leaving a will. A memorial service was held in Anderson, South Carolina, on September 4, 2020. Speakers at the service included Boseman's youth pastor and Deanna Brown-Thomas, who played James Brown in the film Get on Up. The city unveiled its plans to erect an enduring work of art in memory at the funeral. Boseman was buried in the nearby Welfare Baptist Church cemetery in Belton, South Carolina.

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