He was a nurse at . He played basketball as a high school student, but when a teammate was shot, Boseman responded by writing a play and found that he felt called to be a storyteller.After graduating from high school in 1995, he studied directing at Howard University (B., 2000). During his undergraduate studies, he (1998) took acting classes at the British Academy of American Drama summer program at the University of Oxford. and visited Ghana.
After college, Boseman moved to Brooklyn and attended the Digital Film Academy in Manhattan. He earned his living as a drama teacher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and has worked in theater, as a writer, director, and actor. He performed with the National Shakespeare Company in New York City and co-wrote and performed on the hip-hop play Rhyme Deferred. He wrote and directed Hieroglyphic Graffiti (2001), which premiered at the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. and Deep Azure (2005), commissioned by Chicago's Congo Square Theater Company.
During this time, Boseman also began appearing on television, beginning with a guest starring role in 2003 on the crime series Third Watch. He also appeared briefly on the soap opera All My Children in a role later taken by Michael B. Jordan. Other television appearances have included Law & Order, CSI: NY and ER. He had a recurring role (2008–09) on Lincoln Heights and starred in the short-lived mystery series Persons Unknown (2010).Boseman also pursued film roles, making his big screen debut in 2008 when he appeared in the football biopic The Express.
He then starred in The Kill Hole (2012), a thriller about an Iraq War veteran sent to kill another. Pacific Northwest Veteran. While that film was largely ignored, Boseman garnered more attention when he was cast as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the highly anticipated biopic 42 (2013). His performance as a man forced to hide his feelings was widely acclaimed, as was his athleticism.He then played linebacker Vontae Mack in Draft Day (2014) with Kevin Costner before taking on the role of music legend James Brown in Get On Up (2014). Brown's evocation of Boseman has been widely hailed as intriguing and unforgettable.
In 2016, Boseman starred as Thoth in the critically-panned film Gods of Egypt and starred in the little-seen revenge thriller Message from the King. However, his most notable film that year was Captain America: Civil War, in which he debuted as Marvel superhero T'Challa/Black Panther, king of the fictional African country of Wakanda who has an alter ego.
Boseman then played a young Thurgood Marshall as a lawyer for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in Marshall (2017). Boseman reprized the role of T'Challa in Ryan Coogler's blockbuster Black Panther and his performance cemented his status as an A-list movie star.
Additionally, Black Panther made headlines as the first big-budget film with an almost all-black cast, and T'Challa became a celebrated icon. Boseman played the character again in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) before starring in the crime thriller 21 Bridges (2019). In 2020, he played a revered fallen squad leader in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, which was about the Vietnam War.
