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Actor Denzel Washington covered the tuition for Boseman’s studies at the British American Drama Academy’s Oxford program.
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Boseman graduated from Howard University and also completed the British American Drama Academy midsummer program at Oxford.
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When Angela Bassett received an honorary degree from Howard University, Boseman was the student assigned to escort her around campus.
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After graduating high school in 1995, Boseman enrolled at Howard University and earned a BFA in Directing in 2000. His instructor Phylicia Rashad and Denzel Washington funded his Oxford program attendance.
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On August 28, 2020, the day of his death, Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day that year due to the pandemic.
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Boseman, born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, excelled in basketball as a youth and continued playing pick-up basketball and boxing into his late 30s and early 40s.
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After Boseman’s death, Marvel Studios announced that the role of T’Challa in Black Panther would not be recast, making him the sole actor to portray the character in the MCU.
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Boseman battled Stage 3 colon cancer for four years before his death.
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His play Deep Azure was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for New Work.
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Boseman was the son of Carolyn, a nurse, and Leroy Boseman, who managed an upholstery business and worked at a textile factory.
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At the time of his death, Black Panther was the only film with a black leading first-billed actor to exceed $1 billion at the box office, and it ranked eleventh on the all-time highest-grossing films list with $1,346,900,000.
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He studied African and African American history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.
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Boseman attended and graduated from T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina in 1995; the school later established a college scholarship in his name.
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He attended Howard University with producer Logan Coles, and they later formed a production company together.
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Black Panther 2018 was the first MCU film to have its opening weekend domestic box office exceed its production cost of $200 million, earning $202 million domestically in its opening weekend.
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After his death, Boseman was cremated and his ashes were returned to his spouse.
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Of the eight films Boseman produced, he shared producing credits with Logan Coles on six of them.
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He wrote, directed, and acted in three hip hop theatre pieces: Rhyme Deferred, Hieroglyphic Graffiti, and Deep Azure.
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The final film Boseman was cast in, Yasuke, was in pre-production at the time of his death; its fate remains unannounced as of September 2020.
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Boseman was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6904 Hollywood Boulevard on November 20, 2025, with director Ryan Coogler and actress Viola Davis speaking.
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Boseman’s friend Denzel Washington produced Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 2020, Boseman’s last completed film. Washington also produced Fences 2016 with similar collaborators.
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Boseman was a lifelong Democrat.
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He was friends with Reginald Hudlin, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Mackie, and Michael B. Jordan.
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He played the leading Young Man role in a YouTube adaptation of the comedy short story Love Is a Fallacy by Max Shulman.
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Boseman was born on exactly the same date as actress Anna Faris of Scary Movie fame.
