<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2003--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1976) is an American actor . He is known for portraying Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014), T'Challa / Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017). He also had roles in the television series Lincoln Heights (2008) and Persons Unknown (2010), and the films The Express (2008) and Draft Day (2014). He will reprise his role as Black Panther in Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, both scheduled for release in 2018 . </P> <P> Boseman was born in South Carolina, and raised in the city of Anderson, the son of Carolyn, a nurse, and Leroy Boseman, who owns an upholstery business . Boseman graduated from T.L. Hanna High School in 1995 and later graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC, in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing . He also graduated from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford . Boseman had wanted to write and direct, and initially began studying acting to learn how to relate to actors . While in New York he studied Digital Filmmaking at the Digital Film Academy . </P>

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