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Chadwick Boseman, Darius Rucker of SC, to be honored on Hollywood Walk of Fame

By Lyn Riddle
FILE - This July 21, 2014 file photo shows actor Chadwick Boseman posing for a portrait in New York. Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - This July 21, 2014 file photo shows actor Chadwick Boseman posing for a portrait in New York. Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File) Dan Hallman/Invision/AP

Two South Carolina natives will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Darius Rucker and Chadwick Boseman were selected Monday by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce..

They were among the 31 celebrities in movies, television, theater, radio records and sport entertainment selected.

Darius Rucker and Hootie in the Blowfish play Raleigh’s PNC Arena, Friday night, Feb. 17, 2023.
Darius Rucker and Hootie in the Blowfish play Raleigh’s PNC Arena, Friday night, Feb. 17, 2023. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver.com

Rucker, who is from Charleston, won a Grammy when he was with the band Hootie & the Blowfish. Their debut album is among the Top 10 best-selling studio albums of all time. Since leaving the band and switching to country music, Rucker has had four No. 1 albums on the Billboard Country chart.

Boseman, who is from Anderson, died in 2020 of colon cancer at 43. Best known perhaps by his last role, T’Challa in “Black Panther,” he also portrayed Jackie Robinson in “42,” James Brown in “Get On Up,” and Thurgood Marshall in “Marshall.”

The Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2024 are:

In motion pictures: Chadwick Boseman (posthumous), Kevin Feige, Gal Gadot, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chris Meledandri, Chris Pine, Christina Ricci, and Michelle Yeoh

In television Ken Jeong, Eugene Levy, Mario Lopez, Jim Nantz, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Michael Schur, Kerry Washington, and Raúl De Molina and Lili Estefan, Co-Hosts of the television show, “El Gordo y La Flaca” (double ceremony)

In recording: Glen Ballard, Toni Braxton, Def Leppard, Charles Fox, Sammy Hagar, Brandy Norwood, Darius Rucker, Gwen Stefani, and Andre ‘Dr. Dre’ Young

In live theater/live performance: Jane Krakowski and Otis Redding (posthumous)

In radio: Angie Martinez

In sports entertainment: Billie Jean King and Carl Weathers

Ceremony dates wll be announced at www.walkoffame.com.

This story was originally published June 28, 2023 at 2:11 PM.

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