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- NAME: Chadwick Boseman
- OCCUPATION: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
- BIRTH DATE: 1982
- EDUCATION: Howard University, British American Drama Academy
- PLACE OF BIRTH: South Carolina
- AKA: Chad Boseman
- Full Name: Chadwick Boseman
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Chadwick Boseman is an American actor known for his roles on the TV show Lincoln Heights and as baseball great Jackie Robinson in the biopic 42.
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Synopsis
Born in South Carolina in 1982, Chadwick Boseman would go on to have a successful stage career as an actor, writer and director. In the mid-2000s, Boseman appeared on TV in various guest spots and landed reoccurring roles on the shows Lincoln Heights and Persons Unknown. He was the lead in the indie film The Kill Hole, and was later cast as Jackie Robinson in the 2013 biopic 42.
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"I'm overwhelmed by it. It's just a huge responsibility. I wake up every morning, been working and prepping on it, and I'm having the time of my life, playing baseball ... studying footage. It's the opportunity of a lifetime to just do what I love." (On his role as baseball legend Jackie Robinson.)
Training and Stage Work
Actor Chadwick Boseman was born in 1982 in South Carolina, and went on to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in directing. He then attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.
Boseman has performed in a number of stage productions, including Breathe, Romeo and Juliet, Bootleg Blues, Zooman, and Willie's Cut and Shine. He won an AUDELCO award for his role as the teen E.J. in 2002's Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms, a play by Ron Milner about a struggling African-American family pulled in by the temptation of fast cash. He's also worked as part of the Hip Hop Theatre Festival and has written the plays Hieroglyphic Graffiti, Deep Azure and Rhyme Deferred. Additionally, he has directed a number of stage productions, as well as the short film Blood Over a Broken Pawn.
Starring Roles on TV
Boseman started to make a name for himself on TV in the mid-2000s, with guest spots on crime dramas like Third Watch and CSI:NY, and on the soap opera All My Children. Additionally, he was one of the performers for the award-winning audio version of the 2005 novel Upstate, by Kalisha Buckhanon.
In 2008, Boseman landed a reoccurring role as Nathaniel Ray on the ABC Family drama Lincoln Heights, which focused on a suburban family who relocates to the urban community where the police officer patriarch was raised. The series ran for four seasons, with Boseman featured during the last two. During this period, he also had guest-starring roles on ER, Lie to Me, The Glades and Cold Case.
A Football Player and Sergeant
The year 2008 also saw Boseman appearing in Gary Fleder's The Express, a sports biopic about renowned running back Ernie Davis, who played for Syracuse University during the Civil Rights Movement. The film co-starred Rob Brown and Dennis Quaid, with Boseman featured as fellow running back Floyd Little.
Boseman would land his next prominent role as Graham McNair, a Muslim sergeant, on the 2010 NBC summer thriller Persons Unknown. On the series, seven people are kidnapped and trapped in a town by an unknown entity. The following year (2011), Boseman landed additional guest spots on the shows Justified, Detroit 1-8-7, Fringe and Castle.
Playing Jackie Robinson
In 2012, Boseman played the lead role in the film The Kill Hole, directed by Mischa Webley. The indie production revolves around the life of a Portland, Oregon taxi driver who's also an Iraq War veteran, haunted by memories of his past and drafted for a new mission by a private firm.
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