Until Marvel's
Black Panther Movie
Scholarship Fundraiser
Black Panther Movie
Scholarship Fundraiser
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(first 50 tickets include a comic!)
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When: 7:15 PM
Where: CELEBRATION CINEMA SOUTH Cost: $20
Thanks for supporting the Bragg, Harvard, MuhammadSmith Why We Can't Wait Scholarship fund at Grand Rapids Community College |
This event is supported by the Grand Rapids Urban League Young Professionals
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Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther
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A graduate of Howard University and the British American Drama Academy, Chadwick Boseman intended to write and direct. But his career took him on a different path. He first taught drama in Harlem for five years before making the move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. After a string of bit parts on "All My Children," "Law & Order," "ER,” and "Lie to Me," Boseman got his first series regular role on the short-lived crime drama "Lincoln Heights."
Boseman’s breakout role came in 2013 when he was cast as baseball great Jackie Robinson in the biopic 42. In 2014 he took on the role of another legend, James Brown, in the critically acclaimed biopic Get on Up. Before Black Panther hits the screen next year, you can see Boseman as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, in the upcoming biopic Marshall. Per IMDB.com |
Lupita Nyong'o / Nakia
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Lupita Nyong'o stars as Nakia, T’Challa’s love interest and a member of the Dora Milaje, who serve both as bodyguards to the Wakandan King as well as ceremonial wives in training.
After graduating from Hampshire College, Nyong'o started her film career behind the camera, working as a production assistant on The Constant Gardener and directing the documentary In My Genes, about the discrimination of albinos in Kenya. Nyong’o has had a short but impressive acting career, winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2014 for her first feature role in Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave.She repeated that first-time success with a Tony Award in 2016 for Best Actress for her Broadway debut in "Eclipsed." If you want to catch Nyong’o on screen before Black Panther premieres in Feb. 2018, she'll reprise her role as Maz Kanata in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi in December. Per IMDB.com |
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Michael B. Jordan / Erik Killmonger
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Michael B. Jordan is no stranger to the superhero genre, having played Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four, the superpowered high schooler Steve Montgomery in Chronicle, and lending his voice to Cyborg in "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox." In Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan tackles his first supervillain as Erik Killmonger, who in the comics is exiled from Wakanda and becomes T’Challa’s nemesis.
This is Jordan’s third collaboration with director Ryan Coogler. He started in 2013 with Coogler’s first feature-length film Fruitvale Station, about the events leading up to the death of Oscar Grant by BART police in 2009. In 2015 Jordan returned to star in Coogler’s second feature the Rocky spinoff Creed. Per IMDB.com |
Daniel Kaluuya / W'Kabi
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If British actor Daniel Kaluuya looks familiar, you probably recognize him as Chris, the terribly unlucky boyfriend from the horror-comedy Get Out or as the star opposite Emily Blunt as agent Reggie Wayne in Sicario.
If you’re from the United Kingdom, you might know him as Posh Kenneth from the teen drama "Skins," for which he was both an actor and staff writer, or his stints on sci-fi series "The Fades" and "Black Mirror." Kaluuya will be lending his voice as the rabbit Bluebell in the upcoming Netflix/BBC miniseries remake of the animated film Watership Down. In Black Panther, Kaluuya stars as W’Kabi, T’Challa’s second in command, who in the comics is the chief of Wakandan security, wary of outside influence. Per IMDB.com |
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Danai Gurira / Okoye
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Danai Gurira stars as Okoye, friend of Nakia and head of the order of the Dora Milajie.
Guira is best known for her portrayal of the sword-wielding zombie outbreak survivor on "The Walking Dead," a role she’s held for five seasons. In addition to acting, Guira is also a successful playwright, receiving the Whiting Award for an emerging playwright in 2012 and the Sam Norkin Award in 2016 for her plays "Familiar" and "Eclipsed" (for which Lupita Nyong’o received a Tony award). In addition to "The Walking Dead," Guira appeared in HBO’s "Treme," "Lie to Me," and the US adaptation of "Life on Mars." You can see Guira in the upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyez on Me, before she kicks ass in Black Panther next year. Per IMDB.com |
Forest Whitaker / Zuri
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With 119 acting credits to his name, Forest Whitaker has had a successful and prolific acting career across film and television, with memorable roles as Big Harold in Platoon, ’Jody in The Crying Game, Ghost Dog in Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland for which he won a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar for his role as the Ugandan dictator.
Whitaker stars as Zuri, who in the "Black Panther" comics is a renown warrior and loyal companion to T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka. His character later serves T’Challa after the death of the King. Per IMDB.com |
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Martin John Christopher Freeman / Everett K. Ross
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Freeman plays Everett K. Ross, a member of the CIA and former liaison of its Joint Counter Terrorism Task Force. Freeman said that Ross "has an uneasy peace with T'Challa", and that he "goes on a strange journey, an enlightening journey to Wakanda."
Freeman is an English actor, who became known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office, Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock, Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series Fargo. His other notable film roles include Love Actually (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Nativity! (2009), Three Flavours Cornettotrilogy, The World's End (2013), and his portrayal of Everett K. Ross in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Per IMDB.com / Wikipedia.com |
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Letitia Wright / Shuri
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Wright plays Shuri - T'Challa's 16 year old sister - the princess of Wakanda and the country’s technology designer. Shuri has been the smartest person in the world, even more so than Tony Stark.
Wright was born in Guyana and is known for The Commuter (2018) and My Brother the Devil (2012). Per IMDB.com / Wikipedia.com |
Winston Duke / M’Baku
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Winston plays M’Baku - the powerful warrior leader of Wakanda's mountain tribe, the Jabari, who are in protest to T'Challa being the new king.
Duke was born in Tobago and emigrated to the U.S. when he was ten. He started acting in theater productions for Portland Stage Company and Yale Repertory Theatre before being cast in Person of Interest.[2] At Yale, he befriended fellow actor and future co-star Lupita Nyong'o.[3] Winston returned to his native Trinidad & Tobago in 2012 for the theatre production of An Echo in the Bone starring alongside actress Taromi Lourdes Joseph and directed by fellow Yale alumna Timmia Hearn Feldman. Duke is known for his roles in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Person of Interest (2011). Per IMDB.com / Wikipedia.com |
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Angela Bassett / Ramonda
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A well-known and accomplished actress, Angela Bassett plays Ramonda - the Queen of Wakanda and advisor to T’Challa, who turns to her for answers to questions for what his father might do in certain situations.
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Andy Serkis / Ulysses Klaue
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Serkis plays Ulysses, a South African black-market arms dealer, smuggler and gangster and is allied with Killmonger.
Serkis is from England. Serkis studied visual arts and became involved in mechanical aspects of the theatre and did stage design and set building for theatrical productions before beginning his acting career. He appeared in a host of popular plays and on almost every renowned British stage. He is know for his roles in film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's saga, "The Lord of the Rings" and portrayed line of CGI-driven characters in addition to traditional acting roles roles. Some of his films: Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30 (2004), and The Prestige (2006). Per IMDB.com / Wikipedia.com |
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