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Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina,[2] the only child of Carolyn[4] and Leroy Boseman, both African American.[5] His mother was a nurse and his father worked at a textile factory, keeping an upholstery business as well.[6] Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995.[7] In his junior year, he wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the school after a classmate was shot and killed.[6] He studied at Howard University in Washington, DC, graduating in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing.[8] One of his teachers was Phylicia Rashad, who became a mentor.[6] She helped raise funds so that Boseman and some classmates could attend the Oxford Mid-Summer Program of the British American Drama Academy in London, to which they'd been accepted.[6]
Boseman wanted to write and direct, and initially began studying acting to learn how to relate to actors.[9] After he returned to the US, he graduated from New York City's Digital Film Academy.[10] He lived in Brooklyn at the start of his career.[6] Boseman worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.[1] In 2008 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.[11]