Actor-Producer-Director Chadwick Boseman, who got limelight after the movie Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died of cancer on Friday. He was 43 years old.
Boseman, born Chadwick Aaron Boseman in South Carolina, in 1976, got his start writing plays at an early age, staging a production called Crossroads in his junior year of high school. He earned a place at Howard University in Washington, DC, where studied directing. From there, he attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.
In 2016, Boseman appeared for the first time as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and he went on to headline his own movie two years later. The Disney film, directed by Ryan Coogler, Marvel Studios’ first Black director, became a cultural touchstone with its Black-led cast.
His fans started tweeting with #WakandaForever. check out some of chadiwick's moments in fans' version: