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Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman: the actor who played kings and legends while fighting cancer in secret Movies & TV Chadwick Boseman: the actor who played kings and legends while fighting cancer in secret Chadwick Boseman played Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and T'Challa, the Black Panther. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, kept it private while filming, and died in August 2020 at 43. Letitia Wright: from Guyana to Shuri to carrying the Black Panther mantle Movies & TV Letitia Wright: from Guyana to Shuri to carrying the Black Panther mantle Letitia Wright was born in Guyana and moved to London as a child. She became famous as Shuri in Black Panther (2018), won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, and took up the Black Panther mantle in Wakanda Forever (2022). Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Movies & TV Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Danai Gurira, raised in Zimbabwe, is known as Okoye in Black Panther and Michonne in The Walking Dead. She is also a Tony-nominated playwright whose play Eclipsed, about women in the Liberian civil war, reached Broadway in 2016 with Lupita Nyong'o. Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for her first feature film role. She was a year out of drama school Celebrity Buzz Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for her first feature film role. She was a year out of drama school Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico City to Kenyan parents and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2012. Her first feature film role, Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in March 2014.