A Tribute to

Chadwick Boseman

The King of our Hearts

Here is the timeline of Fabulous Actor Chadwick boseman's life

  • Chadwick Aaron Boseman(November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor. Born and raised in South Carolina.
  • He took up acting professionally after he studied directing at Howard University.
  • He began his career with guest appearances on television and was a series regular on the short-lived Lincoln Heights (2008–2009) and Persons Unknown (2010).
  • Boseman's breakthrough role came as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biopic 42 (2013).
  • He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up (2014) as singer James Brown
  • Marshall (2017) as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • Boseman achieved international fame for playing superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 2016 to 2019.
  • He appeared in four MCU films, including an eponymous 2018 film that earned him an 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.
  • Boseman also headlined the film 21 Bridges (2019) and had a supporting role in Da 5 Bloods (2020).
  • His final film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is scheduled to be released posthumously.
  • In 2016, Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer. Boseman kept his condition private, continuing to pursue his acting career while receiving treatment.
  • After a four-year battle, he died in 2020 from complications related to the illness.

People are talking in glowing terms about Chadwick that the actor was an incredibly loved man, not just for his performances, but also for his kindness, empathy and sensitivity.

"Chadwick came to the White House to work with kids when he was playing Jackie Robinson. You could tell right away that he was blessed. To be young, gifted, and Black; to use that power to give them heroes to look up to; to do it all while in pain – what a use of his years."

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 29, 2020