Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther passed away at aged 43 years

Chadwick Boseman or King Tchalla which is the character he plays on marvel universe's Black Panther was an iconic actor of  great repute. Born Chadwick Aaron Boseman born November 29, 1976 , he was raised in south carolina. Boseman graduated from T.L. Hanna High School in 1995, He wrote he's first play while in his junior year, Crossroads as he titled it was inspired by the shooting and killing of a classmate of his. He also played several iconic figures such as Jackie Robinson in the movie 42, James Brown in Get on up, His superhero role as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Films including  Black Panther, Avengers-Infinty war, and the Avengers Endgame, made him an international star, winning him a NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award amongst other awards. chadwick also starred in the film 21 bridges in 2019, which he co-produced, he's final film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom will release on Netflix.

Boseman attended college at Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. One of his teachers was Phylicia Rashad, who became a mentor. She helped raise funds, notably from her friend and prominent actor Denzel Washington 

so that Boseman and some classmates could attend the Oxford Mid-Summer Program of the British American Drama Academy in London, to which they had been accepted.

 

He lived in Brooklyn at the start of his career. Boseman worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program.  In 2008, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. In 2016, he started portraying the Marvel Comics character T'Challa Black Panther, with Captain America: Civil War being his first film in a five-picture deal with Marvel. He headlined Black Panther in 2018, which focused on his character and his home country of Wakanda in Africa. The film opened to great anticipation, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year in the United States. He reprised the role in both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Both films were the highest grossing of the year they were released, with Endgame going on to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Also in 2019, he starred in 21 Bridges, an American action thriller film directed by Brian Kirk, as an NYPD detective who shuts down the eponymous 21 bridges of Manhattan to find two suspected cop killers. In 2019, it was announced that Boseman was cast in the Netflix war drama film Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee. The film was released on June 12, 2020.

Owen Gleiberman in Variety, "Boseman was a virtuoso actor" as he had the rear ability to a character from the outside in and from the inside out. he knew how to fuse into a  role etching it in 3 dimensions.

 

Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, which eventually progressed to a stage IV before 2020  colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel movements, weight loss, and feeling tired all the time.

 

He had not spoken publicly about his cancer diagnosis. During treatment (multiple surgeries and chemotherapy), he continued to work and completed filming for several films, including Marshall, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and others. Boseman died at his home of complications related to colon cancer on August 28, 2020, with his wife and family by his side.