Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born on November 29, 1976 in Anderson, South Carolina, US, and is an American actor. He earned a bachelor of fine arts in directing from Howard University in Washington, DC in 2000, and also graduated from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. Wanting to write and direct, he studied acting to know how to relate to actors, he was a drama instructor in Harlem, NY, and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting in 2008. He had roles in episodes of Third Watch, Law & Order, CSI:NY, ER, Lincoln Heights, Persons Unknown and his first film, The Express. His first starring role was the film 42 in 2013 in which he played Jackie Robinson. In 2014, he co-starred in Draft Day and as James Brown in Get on Up, that received critical acclaim. In 2016 he starred as Thoth in Gods of Egypt and in Captain America: Civil War and will star in a solo a Black Panther Marvel film in 2018. In 2017 he plays a civil rights attorney and first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall in the film Marshall.