Chadwick Boseman
| Chadwick Boseman | |
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Boseman in 2016
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Chadwick Aaron Boseman November 29, 1976 Anderson, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Education | Howard University BFA |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2003–present |
Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014), and T'Challa in the Marvel Studios film Captain America: Civil War (2016). He also had roles in the television series Lincoln Heights (2008) and Persons Unknown (2010), and the films The Express (2008) and Draft Day (2014). He will reprise his Marvel role in Black Panther, scheduled for a 2018 release.
Boseman was born in South Carolina, and raised in the city of Anderson, the son of Carolyn, a nurse, and Leroy Boseman, who owns an upholstery business. His ancestry traces to the Limba people of Sierra Leone. Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995 and later graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC, in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing. He also graduated from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Boseman had wanted to write and direct, and initially began studying acting to learn how to relate to actors.
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