Trivia

Denzel Washington paid for Chadwick Boseman's tuition at Oxford University.

A graduate of both Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, and the British American Dramatic Academy midsummer at Oxford program, Oxford, England, UK.

When Angela Bassett received an Honorary Degree from Howard University; he was the student assigned to escort her around the campus.

After graduating from high school in 1995, he enrolled at Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, where he graduated (Class of 2000) with a bachelor of fine arts in directing. One of his instructors at Howard was Phylicia Rashad, who became one of his mentors, and also contacted some of her friends (including the largest contributor, Denzel Washington, who also became Boseman's friend) and other faculty members, who contributed to a travel and tuition fund which allowed Boseman and a few of his classmates to attend the British American Drama Academy's Midsummer at Oxford Program at Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK.

One of his most high-profile roles came from playing Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013). In an eerie coincidence, he passed away on the day that Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day in 2020: August 28th. Ordinarily, Jackie Robinson Day is celebrated on April 15th, but with the COVID-19 pandemic delaying and shortening the season, the celebration of Robinson's life was pushed into August.

Born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, USA, where he excelled in basketball. As an adult, even into his late 30s and early 40s, he still played pick-up basketball, and also boxed with a sparring partner at a boxing gym.

After his death on August 28, 2020, Marvel Studios publicly announced that his role of T'Challa in Pantera Negra (2018) would not be recast for future films (at the time of Boseman's death, a sequel to the film was announced with T'Challa returning), meaning that Boseman would be the one and only actor to portray the character, thereby also foreclosing the possibility of any new cast member portraying the role of T'Challa in future installments of the Avengers-franchise.

Battled Stage 3 Colon cancer for 4 years until his untimely death.

As a playwright, his script for "Deep Azure," performed at the Congo Square Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for New Work (meaning work/production under an Actors' Equity Association contract, there is a separate branch for non-equity theater).

At the time of Boseman's death, Black Panther was the only movie with a black leading, first billed actor (or with a primarily black cast), to exceed $1 billion in paid box office, and also at the time of his death, Pantera Negra (2018) was eleventh on the all time list of highest grossing films, having earned $1,346,900,000 in total gross revenue.

Son of Carolyn (née Mattress), a nurse, and Leroy Boseman, who managed an upholstery business and worked at a textile factory.

Attended the The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (an internationally renowned educational library and research division of the New York Public Library) in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, where he studied African (and African American) history.

Graduated from T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Caroline in 1995. Upon his death the school set up a college scholarship in his name.

Attended Howard University with producer Logan Coles. They went on to form a production company together.

Pantera Negra (2018) was the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have an opening weekend's domestic box office receipts surpass the production cost of that movie. In the case of 'Black Panther,' which cost $200 million to make, and its Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday opening weekend domestic box office came to $202 million.

Upon his death, he was cremated and his ashes returned to his spouse.

Of the eight films produced by Chadwick Boseman, he had Logan Coles as one of (or only) his producing partners in six of those films.

Wrote, directed and acted in three hip hop theatre pieces - "Rhyme Deferred", "Hieroglyphic Graffiti" and "Deep Azure.".

The final film, Yasuke, in which Chadwick Boseman was cast and contracted to appear in, was only in pre-production at the time of Chadwick's death, and as of September 1, 2020, the producers of that film have not announced whether the film production will continue with another actor, or whether the production will be terminated or significantly delayed.

Friends with Michael B. Jordan, Reginald Hudlin, Anthony Mackie, and Robert Downey, Jr.

Chadwick's friend, Denzel Washington was one of the producers of La madre del blues (2020), the last film Chadwick completed before his death in August 2020. Coincidentally, the original play upon which the film of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' was based, was written by the legendary and multiple award winning black playwright (who had the same first name as the month in which Chadwick died), August Wilson, who famously wrote a cycle of ten plays based on black lives and experiences during ten separate decades of the twentieth century, several of which Washington had previously either acted in, directed, produced, or a combination, both on stage, and in the only previous Wilson work to be produced and released as a feature film before Ma Rainey, Barreras (2016), which Washington directed, produced, and acted in, and which was released in 2016, the same year in which Chadwick was first diagnosed with colon cancer. In both Ma Rainey and 'Fences," Todd Black was one of Washington's producing partners, and Viola Davis is the female lead actor (different characters) in both films.

He was a lifelong Democrat.

Born on exactly the same date as Anna Faris of "Scary Movie" fame.