Chadwick Boseman Cause Of Death

Chadwick Boseman (November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor.

Boseman’s first major movie role was as a series regular on the NBC drama Persons Unknown (2010) and he landed his breakthrough performance in 2013 as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42.

Boseman continued to portray historical figures, starring as singer James Brown in Get on Up (2014) and as attorney Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017).

Boseman gained global acclaim for playing the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 2016 to 2019.

Boseman also appeared in four MCU films, including an eponymous 2018 film that earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

As the first black actor to headline an MCU film, Boseman was named in the 2018 Time 100.

Chadwick Boseman Cause Of Death

Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, which eventually progressed to stage IV before 2020.

However, Boseman didn’t speak publicly about the cancer diagnosis, and according to The Hollywood Reporter;

“Only a handful of non-family members knew that Boseman was sick… with varying degrees of knowledge about the severity of [his] condition.”

During treatment, involving multiple surgeries and chemotherapy, Boseman continued to work and completed production for several films, including Marshall, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey, and others.

What was Chadwick Boseman cause of death? Boseman died at his Los Angeles home as a result of complications related to colon cancer on August 28, 2020, aged 43, with his wife and family by his side.