Late actor Chadwick Boseman, who shocked the world with his passing away back in 2020, will be honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This comes five years after the Black Panther star died of colon cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 43.
Chadwick Boseman to be honoured with Hollywood Walk of Fame star
The ceremony to honour the late actor will take place on November 20, 2025. Ryan Coogler, who directed Boseman in Black Panther, along with Viola Davis, who costarred with Boseman in Ma Rainey`s Black Bottom, are expected to speak at the ceremony, according to a report by People.
Meanwhile, Boseman`s wife, Simone Ledward-Boseman, will be accepting the honour at the ceremony in memory of her late husband. According to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Boseman`s Walk of Fame star will be located at 6904 Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles.
Chadwick Boseman`s career
Actor Chadwick Boseman built an illustrious film career portraying notable figures of Black American History. He has previously received a posthumous Academy Award nomination in 2021 for his role as troubled trumpet player Levee Green in Ma Rainey`s Black Bottom. The film, which was an adaptation of the 1982 August Wilson play of the same name, provides a fictionalised account of singer Ma Rainey`s recording session in Chicago in the 1920s.
His performance in the film even won him Golden Globe, Critics` Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards, which his widow, Ledward-Boseman, accepted on his behalf, reported People.
Boseman`s career breakthrough came in 2013, when he stepped up to the plate as Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball history, in 42.
The actor earned acclaim for his performances as James Brown in `Get On Up` in 2014 and Thurgood Marshall in `Marshall` in 2017. Marshall was the first Black person to become a US Supreme Court Justice.
The film follows Marshall early in his career as he defends Joseph Spell (Sterling K Brown), a Black man who is accused of a crime he didn`t commit.
Among the Marvel fans, Chadwick Boseman has etched his name as the superhero `Black Panther` in the franchise. It was directed by Ryan Coogler. Chadwick Boseman died from colon cancer on August 28, 2020, at the age of 43.
(With inputs from ANI)
