<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2000--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1977 or 1976) (sources differ) is an American actor . He is known for portraying Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014), and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017). He has also had roles in the television series Lincoln Heights (2008) and Persons Unknown (2010), and the films The Express (2008), Draft Day (2014), and Message from the King (2016). </P> <P> He also plays the role of Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018) and in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). It is unknown if he will reprise his role in its untitled sequel . </P> <P> Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, the only child of Carolyn and Leroy Boseman, both African American . According to Boseman, DNA testing has indicated that his ancestors were Yoruba people from Nigeria and Limba people from Sierra Leone . His mother was a nurse and his father worked at a textile factory, keeping an upholstery business as well . Boseman graduated from T.L. Hanna High School in 1995 . In his junior year, he wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the school after a classmate was shot and killed . He studied at Howard University in Washington, DC, graduating in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing . One of his teachers was Phylicia Rashad, who became a mentor . She helped raise funds so that Boseman and some classmates could attend the Oxford Mid-Summer Program of the British American Drama Academy in London, to which they'd been accepted . </P>

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