| Chadwick Boseman | ||
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| Character Foster Keyes | ||
| Date of birth November 29, 1976 | ||
| Place of birth Anderson, South Carolina | ||
| Date of death August 28, 2020 | ||
| Place of death Los Angeles, California | ||
| IMDb profile |
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was an actor who guest-starred on Law & Order in the episode "Can I Get a Witness?" as Foster Keyes.
He played the role of Reggie Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children (his Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan eventually took over the role). Boseman's first major role as a series regular was on Persons Unknown in 2010, and his breakthrough performance came in 2013 as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42 (with Nicole Beharie, T.R. Knight, Hamish Linklater, and Christopher Meloni). He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up (2014) as singer James Brown (with Viola Davis) and Marshall (2017) as lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Boseman was best known for his role as T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel movies Captain America: Civil War (with Frank Grillo, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie and Emily VanCamp), Black Panther (with Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, and Winston Duke), Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame (both with Duke, Gurira, Mackie, Stan, Bradley Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Saldana, and Benedict Wong and with Grillo, Maximiliano Hernández, and John Slattery in Endgame) and the TV series What If...?. He died of Stage III colon cancer in 2020, which he had been fighting since 2016 and was kept secret until his death.
His final film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (also with Viola Davis), was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Boseman also received four nominations at the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work in Da 5 Bloods with Delroy Lindo, Norm Lewis, and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the most for a performer at a single ceremony, winning Male Actor in a Leading Role for Ma Rainey.