November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020
Actor, director, and playwright Chadwick Boseman skyrocketed into the spotlight with his role as Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film
42. He went on to star as James Brown (
Get On Up, 2014) and Thurgood Marshall (
Marshall, 2017), and then became an icon in his own right with his 2018 portrayal of T’Challa in
Black Panther the first Black Marvel superhero. Boseman credited his work ethic to his Anderson, South Carolina, upbringing, and told
G&G in a 2017 interview, “the Southern part of me is always going to come out. It doesn’t matter where you live, or where you’ve been, there’s certain stuff you keep.”