The Profound Heroism of Chadwick Boseman
The actor played revolutionary characters who made both Hollywood and American history—all while quietly undergoing treatment for the cancer that took his life at age 43.
Almost as shocking as the news that Chadwick Boseman died yesterday at the age of 43 that the actor had spent the past four years battling colon cancer. This timeline means that he was diagnosed in 2016—the year that he debuted as King T’Challa in Marvel’s . And it means that after his diagnosis, Boseman filmed and appeared in , , two more movies, , Spike Lee’s , and an upcoming adaptation of . This output is immense coming from an actor who had been making
